Chapter IV: Westmoreland, July 4th, 1778

Capitulation made and completed between Major John Butler, on behalf
of His Majesty King George the Third, and Col. Nathan Denniston, of
the United States of America.

Art. 1. That the inhabitants of the settlement lay down their arms, and the garrisons be demolished.

2d. That the inhabitants are to occupy their farms peaceably, and the lives of the inhabitants preserved intire and unhurt.

3d. That the Continental Stores be delivered up.

4th. That Major Butler will use his utmost influence that the private property of the inhabitants shall be preserved intire to them.

5th. That the prisoners in Forty Fort, be delivered up, and that Samuel Finch, now in Major Butler's possession, be delivered up also.

6th. That the property taken from the people called Tories, up the river, be made good; and they to remain in peaceable possession of their farms, unmolested in a free trade, in and throughout this State, as far as lies in my power.

7th. That the inhabitants, that Colonel Denniston now capitulates for, together with himself, do not take up arms during the present contest.

[Signed]

Nathan Denniston. John Butler.

Zarah Beech, John Johnson, Samuel Gustin, Wm. Caldwell.

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The subjoined list embraces material not in printed form:

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Connecticut State Library.--Manuscript Pay and Muster Rolls of
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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Westmoreland Records as per Hollister 5th ed. p. 139.]

[Footnote 2: Westmoreland Records as per Hollister 5th ed. p. 140.]

[Footnote 3: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XIV p. ----.]

[Footnote 4: Miner p. 157.]

[Footnote 5: Miner p. 158.]

[Footnote 6: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 12.]

[Footnote 7: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 43.]

[Footnote 8: Manuscript Pay Rolls Conn. State Library.]

[Footnote 9: Miner p. 154.]

[Footnote 10: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 152 et seq.]

[Footnote 11: Manuscript Pay and Muster Rolls Conn. State Lib.]

[Footnote 12: Hinman's Connecticut in the War of the Revolution, (1842) p. 10.]

[Footnote 13: Mason F. Alden is employed to perform a responsible duty and is called Ensign. However, his name does not appear among the Ensigns of the Twenty-fourth regiment, at that time but recently elected. Perhaps it was a courtesy title derived from some previous service.]

[Footnote 14: Lazarus Stewart was also employed to perform a responsible duty and is called Captain. He served during the French and Indian War; was in Braddock's defeat; was Captain of the "Paxtang Boys," but was not at this time a Captain in the Twenty-fourth regiment. He was a cousin of Lazarus Stewart, Jr., a Lieutenant in the Hanover company.]

[Footnote 15: Miner, p. 172 et seq.; The Harvey Book, p. 628 et seq.]

[Footnote 16: Miner, p. 189.]

[Footnote 17: Westmoreland Records as per Jenkins' Address p. 11.]

[Footnote 18: Miner p. 212.]

[Footnote 19: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 470.]

[Footnote 20: Miner p. 187.]

[Footnote 21: Journals of Continental Congress Vol. III p. 104.]

[Footnote 22: Journals of Continental Congress Vol. II p. 307.]

[Footnote 23: Frontier Forts of Pa. Vol. I p. 434.]

[Footnote 24: Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I p. 31.]

[Footnote 25: Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I p. 91 et seq.]

[Footnote 26: Miner p. 200.]

[Footnote 27: Names of fifteen of these Tories are given in Records of State of Conn. Vol. I p. 539.]

[Footnote 28: Records State of Conn. Vol. II p. 58.]

[Footnote 29: Journals of Continental Congress Vol. IV p. 113.]

[Footnote 30: See Appendix A.]

[Footnote 31: Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I, pp. 264, 430.]

[Footnote 32: Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I, pp. 270, 422; Vol. II, p. 30.]

[Footnote 33: Manuscript Pay and Muster Rolls Conn. State Lib.]

[Footnote 34: Miner, p. 215.]

[Footnote 35: Miner, p. 216.]

[Footnote 36: Miner, p. 218.]

[Footnote 37: For Articles of Capitulation see Miner p. 255, and Appendix C.]

[Footnote 38: Hollister 5th ed., p. 163, 194.]

[Footnote 39: Miner p. 470.]

[Footnote 40: Address of Hon. Steuben Jenkins, p. 38.]

[Footnote 41: The Wyoming Massacre, by Horace Edwin Hayden, (1895) p. xviii et seq.]

[Footnote 42: Articles of Capitulation given by Miner p. 255.]

[Footnote 43: Articles of Capitulation given by Miner p. 255.]

[Footnote 44: Col. John Franklin and the Wild Yankees, by Rev. David Craft, p. 7.]

[Footnote 45: Miner p. 232.]

[Footnote 46: See Appendix B.]

[Footnote 47: See Appendix C.]

[Footnote 48: Orderly Book of Col. Z. Butler in Proc. Wyo. Hist. Soc. Vol. VII p. 124.]