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They are called settlers : it was probably the number of men who were capable of bearing arms. The whole effective force of the valley was prob- ably assembled on the reception of the news of Plun- ket's advance, in December, 1775. This was an excit- ing occasion, which affected every one of the Connec- ticut settlers, and it is to be presumed they were all out. All the local authorities fix the number in that battle at about three hundred. On the Declaration of Independence, the fourth of July... following, the whole fighting force of the val- ley did not exceed four hundred men. Mr. Miner estimates the entire population at that time at twen- ty-five hundred. He is probably not far out of the way. (ISfi) PATKIOTISM. 157 Congress liad declared war ; the tocsin of rebellion had been sounded, and Wyoming was expected to do her duty. She responded nobly. On the twenty- fourth of August, 1776, " at a town meeting legally warned and held in Westmoreland, Wilkes-Barre district, Colonel Butler was chosen moderator for y^ work of y^ day.
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