The massacre was general, and the cries for mercy were answered by the tomahawk.

Rather less than sixty men escaped, some to Forty fort, some by swimming the river, and some to the mountain.

A very few prisoners were made, only three of whom were preserved alive, who were carried to Niagara.
[Footnote 14: The representation of this battle, and of the circumstances attending the destruction of the Wyoming settlement, have been materially varied from the statement made of them in the first edition.

The papers of General Washington furnished allusions to the transaction, but no particular account of it.

The author therefore relied on Mr.Gordon and Mr.Ramsay, whose authority was quoted.