At Limehill Battlefield on April 14, 1782, Sergeant Thomas Baldwin and his party met Indians near this spot while attempting to rescue Mrs. Roswell Franklin and her four children after they had been captured. After four hours of fighting, three of the children were rescued, but Mrs. Franklin was killed. Baldwin’s breastworks were located seventy rods northwest of this spot. Joseph Elliott, second in command at the battle of Lime Hill, killed the Indian who shot Mrs. Franklin and rescued three of her four children. He had also been in the engagement at Trenton on December 25, 1776, where General George Washington presented him with a sword for bravery. At Bloody Rock during the Wyoming Massacre, he broke from the Indians and swam the Susquehanna River with a bullet in his shoulder to escape to Wilkesbarre.