The Battle of Newtown
(Front Plaque):Near this site
Sunday August 29, 1779 was fought
The Battle of Newtown
between
Continental troops commanded by
Major General John Sullivan
and combined force of
Tories and Indians under
Colonel John Butler
and
Joseph Brant
avenging the massacres of
Wyoming and Cherry Valley
destroying the Iroquois Confederacy
ending attacks on our settlements
and thereby opening
westward the pathway of civilization
(Back Plaque):To commemorate
The Battle of Newtown
erected by the State of New York
1912
John A. Dix
Governor
Thomas F. Conway
Lieutenant Governor
Edwin A. Merritt, Jr.
Speaker
John F. Murtaugh
Senator Forty-First District
Robert P. Bush
Assemblyman Chemung County
Charles E. Treman
Duncan W. Peck
Superintendents of Public Works
Marker is on Newtown Reservation Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
