Soon after the work was published, he received a letter from a gentleman then residing in that country, (Mr.Charles Miner,) who asserted with confidence that the statement was incorrect, and gave himself a minute detail of events, collected from persons who were in the settlement at the time, and witnessed them.
The author has been since indebted to the same gentleman for a statement of the battle, and of the events which followed it, drawn up by one of the descendants of Colonel Zebulon Butler, to which the certificates of several gentlemen are annexed, who were engaged in the action.

These documents, with one which will be mentioned, convince him that the combined treachery and savage ferocity which have been painted in such vivid colours, in the narratives that have been given of this furious and desolating irruption, have been greatly exaggerated.

Historic truth demands that these misstatements should be corrected.
The other document alluded to, is a letter from Zebulon Butler to the board of war, making his report of the transaction.

The letter has been lately found among his papers, and is copied below.
_Grandenhutten, Penn Township, July 10th, 1778._ Honoured Sir,--On my arrival at Westmoreland, (which was only four days after I left Yorktown,) I found there was a large body of the enemy advancing on that settlement.

On the first of July we mustered the militia, and marched towards them by the river above the settlement,--found and killed two Indians at a place where the day before they had murdered nine men engaged in hoeing corn.