On April 14, 1782, at Lime Hill, a rescue party of eight Patriot men ambushed thirteen Iroquois Indians who were marching five captives—Mrs. Roswell Franklin and her four children—toward their villages in the Finger Lake region of New York and Canada after seizing them from their home in Hanover Township on April 8 and burning it. The rescue party, led by Sgt. Thomas Baldwin and including Joseph Elliot, John Swift, Oliver Bennett, Watson Baldwin, Gideon Dudley, Mr. Cook, and Mr. Taylor, had left Wilkes-Barre, taken shortcuts along the Great Warriors Path and Sullivan Trail, built a crude breastwork of fallen trees at Lime Hill, and waited two days for the war party. When the Indians appeared about 10:00 AM, the concealed rescuers opened fire, and the fighting seesawed for many hours as the Indians repeatedly attacked with firelocks and tomahawks and tried unsuccessfully to force their way past the blocked trail. Late in the day, with several killed or wounded, the Indians abandoned the captives and retreated. Mrs. Franklin was shot and killed, and baby Icabod was taken away and never seen again, but the other children escaped into the rescuers’ lines when they heard a friendly voice urging them to run. After waiting nearly until sunset, the rescuers found five or six dead Indians and Mrs. Franklin’s body, buried her, recovered weapons and packs, and returned by raft to Wilkes-Barre with the three surviving children, reuniting them with their father, Roswell Franklin. The fight took place along an old Indian route later widened in 1779 by Sullivan’s army, and it was the last action of the Revolutionary War in what is now Bradford County.