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DELAWARE COUNTY. 101 of warfare were permitted to bleach upon the bleak bill-side where the battle took place. But one attempt had been made to gather and bury them — and that was made hy the widows of the slain — of whom there were thirty-three in the Presb}^- terian congregation of Groshen. They set out for the battle- ground on horseback ; but finding the intervening country too rough and broken for them to proceed^ they hired a man to perform the pious duty, who proved unfaithful to the trust, and never returned. In 1820, the remains of these martyrs of freedom were gathered together and deposited in the bury- ing-ground at Groshen, with appropriate ceremonies. A suit- able monument was erected over them, and their names in- scribed on it in the following manner : — INSCRIPTIONS ON THE MONUMENT IN THE OHURCH-yATli? AT GOSHEN. Benjamin Tustin^ CoL, Barahil Tyler, Capt., Ephraim Mastin, Ens., Nathaniel Fish, Adj., John Duncan, Capt., Samuel Jones, Capt., John Little, Capt., Ephraim Middaugh, Ens., Gabriel "Winser, Esq., Stephen Mead, Benjamin Yail, Capt., John Wood, Lieut., Nathaniel Terwilliger, John Lockwood, Ephraim Ferguson. Roger Townsend, Samuel Knapp, James Knapp, Benjamin Bennett, William Barker, Jacob Dunning, Jonathan Pierce, James Little, 9* Joseph Norris, Gilbert S. Vail, Joel Decker, Abram Shepherd, Shepherd, Nathan Wade, Simon Wait, Talmage.