This monument is erected to commemorate the sacrifice of the lives of Sixteen Soldiers who were massacred July, 1758, by a band of hostile Indians in the park which was then only a path in the wilderness.

The sixteen soldiers, with a teamster, a certain John Quackendoss of Albany, N.Y. who through the intervention of an Indian Squaw escaped the cruel death, were securely bound and seated on the trunk of a fallen tree. In this helpless condition they were put to death by one of the Indians armed with a tomahawk.

Erected under the Withan Administration

G.S. Withan, Sr. President

John J. Kingsley

Augustus Carpenter

William M. Hill

Frank C. Chapman

Trustees

Dedicated by Capt. Hiram Hyde

Dedicated 1921

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 4), on the left when traveling north.

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