The Wyoming massacre happen on July 3, 1778, it took place in the Wyoming Valley of Luzerne county in the state of Pennsylvania. Now I won’t go into the back ground of the battle as this is easily found by doing a search on the internet. But the names of the soldiers and those of the civilians are a little harder to find and those are the names you will find here.
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In 1837, the State Convention of Pennsylvania, and of others, natives and residents of the valley of Wyoming, in the county of Luzerne, in the State of Pennsylvania, setting forth that they have learned there is in the War Office, at Washington, an old flag, supposed to have been carried in the great battle which desolated the valley of Wyoming, in the war of the Revolution, which bears the following inscription: "The standard of the bloody Colonel Butler, carried in the battle of Wyoming;"
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Here is a list of civilians
Samuel Benjamin.
Jerusha Flint.
Daniel Childress.
Samuel Tubbs.
Asa A. Gore, asking for remuneration for losses and privations sustained and endured in the massacre at Wyoming in 1778.
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The following names are of the descendants who fell at the battle of Wyoming.
State of Ohio.
John Church.
Isaac Slocum.
Eliphalet Follett.
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Soldier, Eunice Satterlee
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Davis, Joseph (Pa.) Ensign Pennsylvania Musket Battalion. 27th March, 1776: 1st Lieutenant 9th Pennsylvania, August, 1776: transferred to Hartley's Continental Regiment. 15th January, 1777; Captain, 3d June, 1778; Regiment designated 11th Pennsylvania, 16th December, 1778; killed by Indians near Wyoming, 23d April, 1779.
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Pierce, Phineas (Conn). Lieutenant of Spalding's Wyoming Valley Company; resigned 10th November, 1778, on account of wounds received in 1776.
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Pierce, Timothy (Pa). Sergeant in Ransom's Wyoming Valley Company, August, 1776; Ensign, 3d December, 1777; 2d Lieutenant, 17th January, 1778; killed 3d July, 1778, at the Wyoming Valley massacre.
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Durkee, Robert (Conn). Captain of an Independent Company, known as Wyoming Valley Company, 26th August, 1776; he retired from the service 23d June, 1778, his company being consolidated with Ransom's; served as a volunteer and was killed in the Wyoming Massacre, 3d July, 1778.
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Ross, Perin (Conn). 1st Lieutenant of Ransom's Wyoming Valley Company, 26th August. 1776; resigned 25th October, 1777. (Killed at Wyoming. 3d July. 1778.)
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Wells, James (Conn). 1st Lieutenant of Durkee's Wyoming Valley Company, 26th August, 1776; killed 3d July, 1778, at the Wyoming massacre.
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Ransom, Samuel (Pa.) Captain Wyoming Vallev Company, 26th August, 1776; killed at the Wyoming Massacre. 3d July, 1778.
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Stevens, Asa (Conn.) Lieutenant Connecticut Militia; killed at the Wyoming Massacre, 3d July, 1778.
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Spalding, Simon (Conn.) 2d Lieutenant of Ransom's Wyoming Valley Company. 26th August. 1776: 1st Lieutenant, 1st January 1777; Captain. 24th June ,1778; transferred to 1st Connecticut, 1st January 1781; retired 1st January, 1783. (Died 24th January, 1814.)
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Dorrance, George (Conn). Lieutenant-Colonel Connecticut Militia; taken prisoner and murdered by Indians at Wyoming, 3d July, 1778.
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Harding, Stephen (Pa.) Captain Pennsylvania Militia; taken prisoner at Wyoming, 2d July, 1778. (Died 1789.)
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Hollenbeck, Matthew (Conn.) Ensign of Ransom's Wyoming Valley Company 26th August, 1776; retired 27th July, 1778.
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Jameson, John (Conn.) Ensign 5th Connecticut, 1st January, 1777; resigned 22d July, 1777; Lieutenant Connecticut Militia; killed at Wyoming 8th July, 1778.
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Jenkins, Thomas (Conn.) 1st Lieutenant of Spalding's Independent Wyoming Valley Company, 6th July, 1778; 'transferred to 1st Connecticut, 20th November, 1781, and served to close of the war.
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Jameson, John (Conn.) Ensign 5th Connecticut, 1st January, 1777; resigned 22d July, 1777; Lieutenant Connecticut Militia; killed at Wyoming 8th July, 1778.
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Jones, William (Del). 2d Lieutenant of McLane's Delaware Partisan Company, 13th January. 1777; killed at Wyoming, 23d April, 1779.
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Shoemaker, Elijah (Conn.) Lieutenant Connecticut Militia, ; killed at
the Wyoming Massacre, 3d July, 1778.
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Swift, Heman (Conn). Ensign of Durkee's Wyoming Valley Company, 26th August, 1776; resigned 1st July, 1778.
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Wells, James (Conn). 1st Lieutenant of Durkee's Wyoming Valley Company, 26th August, 1776; killed 3d July, 1778, at the Wyoming massacre.
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