Capt. Dethic Hewitt

HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, county of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 421, 423, 565

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The inscription on the front tablet of the monument reads as follows:

"Near this spot was fought, on the afternoon of Friday, the 3d of July,
1778, the battle of Wyoming; in which a small body of patriotic Americans,
chiefly the undisciplined, the youthful and the aged, spared, by
inefficiency, from the distant ranks of the republic, led by Colonel
Zebulon Butler and Colonel Nathan Denison, with a courage that deserved
success boldly met and bravely fought a combined British, tory and Indian
force of thrice their number. Numericial superiority alone gave success to
the invader, and wide-spread havoc, desolation and ruin marked his savage
and bloody footsteps through the valley. This
monument, commemorative of these events and of the actors in them, has
been erected over the bodies of the slain by their descendants and others who
gratefully appreciate the services and sacrifices of their patriotic
ancestors."