After the dead had been removed and the wounded attended to (some of the former were interred in an old burying-ground in County Tyrone, beyond Ballygawley) the jubilant Protestants assembled in the little field before the wrecked house of Daniel Winter, and kneeling around with uplifted hands to heaven, thanked God for his great deliverance. There they vowed to form a society for their mutual defence and protection against such trials as they had just come through.

Winter's house had the honour of the first embryo Orange Lodge being held in it the term Orange having been adopted in compliment to the memory of William the third. [Rev J. Winter, Augher, Stated a few years ago that the late Mr.Robert Taylor told him the first Orangeman was made in Dan Winter's garden at a bush beside the spring well.