Sullivan County Historian Lectures on the Battle of Chestnut Woods – 10/25/13
October 15, 2013 by The Catskill Chronicle
GRAHAMSVILLE, NY (October 15, 2013) – On September 5, 1778, in a valley near where the Chestnut Brook flows into the Pepacton Creek, a ![Photo: On September 5, 1778, in a valley near where the Chestnut Brook flows into the Pepacton Creek, a contingent of 21 mostly inexperienced soldiers of the Colonial Militia under the command of Lt. John Graham were ambushed by a group of Native Americans and Tories. All but three of the militia were killed. Nearly 100 years later, James Eldridge Quinlan wrote in his History of Sullivan County that "[w]ithout knowing it, [Graham] and his party were as completely in the power of the enemy as if they had been a covey of patridges under the fowler's net."
The ambush has become known as the Battle at Chestnut Woods, and Sullivan County Historian John Conway will discuss the events leading up to that bloody day as well as the aftermath when he presents The Massacre in the Woods at the Daniel Pierce Library in Grahamsville on Friday, October 25 at 7 PM.
The program is co-sponsored by the Daniel Pierce Library, Time and the Valleys Museum and the Town of Neversink. For more information, call 845-985-7233.](https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/p480x480/994928_596057917141621_1511846828_n.jpg)
contingent of 21 mostly inexperienced soldiers of the Colonial Militia under the command of Lt. John Graham were ambushed by a group of Native Americans and Tories. All but three of the militia were killed.
Nearly 100 years later, James Eldridge Quinlan wrote in his History of Sullivan County that "[w]ithout knowing it, [Graham] and his party were as completely in the power of the enemy as if they had been a covey of patridges under the fowler’s net."
The ambush has become known as the Battle at Chestnut Woods, and Sullivan County Historian John Conway will discuss the events leading up to that bloody day as well as the aftermath when he presents “The Massacre in the Woods” at the Daniel Pierce Library in Grahamsville on Friday, October 25 at 7:00 p.m.
The program is co-sponsored by the Daniel Pierce Library, Time and the Valleys Museum and the Town of Neversink. For more information, call 845-985-7233.
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Sullivan County Historian Lectures on the Battle of Chestnut Woods – 10/25/13
October 15, 2013 by The Catskill Chronicle
GRAHAMSVILLE, NY (October 15, 2013) – On September 5, 1778, in a valley near where the Chestnut Brook flows into the Pepacton Creek, a![Photo: On September 5, 1778, in a valley near where the Chestnut Brook flows into the Pepacton Creek, a contingent of 21 mostly inexperienced soldiers of the Colonial Militia under the command of Lt. John Graham were ambushed by a group of Native Americans and Tories. All but three of the militia were killed. Nearly 100 years later, James Eldridge Quinlan wrote in his History of Sullivan County that "[w]ithout knowing it, [Graham] and his party were as completely in the power of the enemy as if they had been a covey of patridges under the fowler's net."
The ambush has become known as the Battle at Chestnut Woods, and Sullivan County Historian John Conway will discuss the events leading up to that bloody day as well as the aftermath when he presents The Massacre in the Woods at the Daniel Pierce Library in Grahamsville on Friday, October 25 at 7 PM.
The program is co-sponsored by the Daniel Pierce Library, Time and the Valleys Museum and the Town of Neversink. For more information, call 845-985-7233.](https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/p480x480/994928_596057917141621_1511846828_n.jpg)
contingent of 21 mostly inexperienced soldiers of the Colonial Militia under the command of Lt. John Graham were ambushed by a group of Native Americans and Tories. All but three of the militia were killed.
Nearly 100 years later, James Eldridge Quinlan wrote in his History of Sullivan County that "[w]ithout knowing it, [Graham] and his party were as completely in the power of the enemy as if they had been a covey of patridges under the fowler’s net."
The ambush has become known as the Battle at Chestnut Woods, and Sullivan County Historian John Conway will discuss the events leading up to that bloody day as well as the aftermath when he presents “The Massacre in the Woods” at the Daniel Pierce Library in Grahamsville on Friday, October 25 at 7:00 p.m.
The program is co-sponsored by the Daniel Pierce Library, Time and the Valleys Museum and the Town of Neversink. For more information, call 845-985-7233.
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