This was in the winter of 1769, and two hundred more pioneers followed them in the spring.

The fort stood on the western bank of the river.
The Pennsylvanians, however, had prepared for them, and the trouble began.

During the few years following, the New Englanders were three times driven out of the valley, and the men, women, and children were obliged to tramp for two hundred miles through the unbroken wilderness to their old homes.

But they rallied and came back again, and at last were strong enough to hold their ground.

About this time the mutterings of the American Revolution began to be heard, and the Pennsylvanians and New Englanders forgot their enmity and became brothers in their struggle for independence.
Among the pioneers from Connecticut who put up their old fashioned log houses in Wyoming were George Ripley and his wife Ruth.