The History of Wyoming in a series of letters by Charles Miner. On page 238 he write about the Wyoming Mascara that was lead by Col Butler and the Indians against the Wyoming Valley settlers. After Butler with a large portion of the Indians with drew. the savages remaining now free from slight restrain the presence of their white allies imposed, gave themselves to the wildest disorder separating in parties of from five to ten, they scattered through the Valley,, marking their course as if in sheer wantonness, would either leave, or set fire to it, as whim or caprice seemed to give it expression. . From the farm of an aged man by the name of Weeks, in Wilkes-barre, originally from Fairfield county, seven persons had gone out to battle, (so imperious, so irresistible were demands for men, even to make up the three hundred.) Philip, Jonathan, and Bartholomew Weeks, his sons - Silas Benedict, who married a grand-daughter, Jabez Beers, and Josiah Carman, relatives, and Robert Bates, a border. Horrible slaughter! the whole seven lay dead on the field at night! Page 242 a list of settler killed: A. Benedict, Private No other references ot Benedict family.