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While undertaking to republish his reminiscences in pamphlet form, I began to write an introduction, setting forth events in village history previous to his arrival there in 1840. In this way I literally stumbled upon the events set forth in this volume. Born and reared in Unadilla, I had grown to manhood and been many years out of college, without gaining more than a shadowy impression of those events. Brant's name was known, and I had heard of an interview between him and General Herkimer, but I knew definitely nothing else in Brant's career. Of the massacre of Cherry Valley I had heard, but why, or when, or how it happened, I did not know.
These facts embraced the sole stock of information I had concerning the early history of this frontier. The genera- tion to which I belong had grown up ignorant of the stirring history of their own valley, simply because nothing had been published about it in their time, and the early chronicles had become scarce books. I then set about collecting material for a detailed record, including the annals of the village from its settlement down to 1840, and in the course of nearly ten years brought together a mass of material from a great variety of sources.
Its publication as a local history was planned, but about a year ago I decided to extract from the larger mass so much as might be presumed to have wider interest, and to seek to have it made public through a regular publishing house, re- serving the purely local matter for issue in some other way.
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ABBOTT, WILLIAM, 358 Abraham, Mohawk chief, 22
Afton, islands near, 27, 275 ; Gould Bacon settles on one of, 345
Agwrondougwas, Peter, a converted Indian, 68
Alagatinga, an Indian chief, his grave, 24
Albany, as a trading post, 8, 32, 34 ; Indians cheated at, 39 ; plate in St. Peter's Church at, 49 ; council at, 56; Congress of, 63 ; trade of, in danger, 88 ; conference at, with Ind- ians, 152 ; inhabitants of, preparing for flight, 302 ; Brant visits. 323
Albout, settlement of, 134; Colonel William Butler at, 234; General Clinton burns, 275
Alden, Colonel Ichabod, arrives in Cherry Valley, 223; sends out scouting party, 240; killed, 241, 242 ; blamed for massacre, 245; his grave, 246
Alger, Stoughton, 24, 129
Alsop, George, describes Susque- hanna Indians, 17
Andrews, Rev. William, missionary, 48
Andrustown, destroyed by Brant, 2II
Anne of Austria, 45
Anne, Queen, aids Palatines, 36; aids missionaries, 50
Arnold, General Benedict, relieves Fort Schuyler, 193; Walter But- ler's conviction under, 239 ; treason of, 295 ; meets Talleyrand in Eng- land, 369
Ashley, Mrs. B., an interpreter, 55, 56 Avery, John, 342
Avery, Revs. Henry and Peter, 80
BACON, GOULD, 343 ; his adventure in a freshet, 345
Bacon, Rev. James, 347, 373
Bainbridge, Turnpike from, to Eso- pus, 176 ; Colonel Timothy Church settles in, 342, 350 ; land values in, 394
Baits, David, 345, 397
Ballard, Captain, goes out from Cherry Valley as a scout, 224 Ballston burned, 300
Banyar, Gouldsborough, at the Al- bany Congress, 64 ; real owner of
the Wallace patent, III ; sketch of, II2-114 ; at Sir William Johnson's funeral, 162, 344, 345
Barclay, Rev. Henry, missionary, 50 Bateaux, description of, 121
Baxter, Levi, his mill site, 133, 342
Beach, A. H., 397
Beach, Ebenezer, 352
Beach, Timothy, 343; reaches the Ouleout, 347 ; his adventures, 350 ; his untimely fate, 352
Beach, William, 353
Beals, Abraham and Jacob, settle on the Susquehanna, 334
Beardsley, Levi, his Reminiscences, 125; describes Colonel Alden's grave when opened, 247; settles in Richfield, 343
Beatty, Lieutenant Erkuries, 261 ; his account of Clinton's descent of the Susquehanna, 274
Beaumetz, - visits the Susque- hanna with Talleyrand, 368, 369, 370
Beletre, -, destroys German Flats, 123
Bennington, battle of, 189
Benton, Caleb, 382, 383
Benton, Stephen, lands of, 109, 354, 382, 397 Betts, John M., 352
Betts, Samuel, 342
Bibliography, 403
Biddle, Joseph, 127
Binghamton, hostile Indians at, 66, 72, 352; first settlement of, 135, 354; Talleyrand at, 369
Bissell, Daniel, as a boy, 341, 353, 396 Bissell, Guido L., 353, 396
Bleeker, Captain Johannus, 35, 274 Bloomville, Scotch-Irish at, 348
Bolton, Colonel commands
Fort Niagara, 266
Bostwick, David, 383
Boswell, James, friend to Brant in London, 158
Boyd, Lieutenant Thomas, his hor- rible death, 282
Braddock, General Edward, defeat of, 65
Bradley Farm, meeting place of Her- kimer and Brant, 179
Bradley, Peter, 343
Bradstreet, Gen. John, his lands on the Susquehanna, 169
Bradt, Arendt, his patent, 94
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Brainerd, David, missionary, 52 Brant, Indians of that name, 158 Brant, Joseph, portrait of, frontis- piece; student at Lebanon, 70, I21; at Ft. Niagara and Lake George, 74 ; interpreter to mission- aries, 76; teaches Kirkland the Mohawk tongue, 78; visitor at Sleeper's house, 128; guide to Smith and Wells, 129, 141-142 ; home in Canajoharie, 140 ; his wife, I44; reply to Dr. Wheelock, 149; early life of, 157-161 ; goes to Lon- don, 162-164; social success in London, 165; on Staten Island, 165 ; described, 166; goes to Ogh- waga, 168 ; proposed apprehension of, 169; invades Mohawk Valley, 172 ; extent of his authority, 173, 184; at Unadilla, 173 ; disperses the Unadilla settlement, 173-175 ; aided by Tories at Unadilla, 176 ; interview with Herkimer at Una- dilla, 178-184; his loyalty to the King, 180; starts for Oswego, 185 ; ambushes Herkimer at Oriskany, 190; preparing to attack Cherry Valley, 204; returns to the Sus- quehanna, 207; at Cobleskill, 208; at Cherry Valley, 208-209; on the Charlotte River, 210; burns Spring- field, 211; with Butler at Chemung, 212; causes Wormwood's death, 208, 213; means to "fight the cruel rebels," 214 ; in the Old England district, 214 ; goes to Tioga Point, 215; collects provisions for But- ler, 215 ; expedition of, to Lacka- waxen, 215; not at Wyoming, 216; intends to attack Cherry Valley. 224, 225; destroys Ger- man Flats, 225-227 ; returns to Unadilla, 226; invades Minisink, 237 ; granddaughter of killed, 237 ; induced to go to Cherry Valley, 239; regrets killing of Wells fami- ly, 241 ; restraining influence of, at Cherry Valley, 247; kills a man for lying, 248; saves the life of a Mason, 248; at Sleeper's Mills, 250 ; portrait of, facing 158; tries to win over Oneidas and Tuscaro- ras, 263; at Oghwaga waiting for Clinton, 265 ; goes to the Mohawk, 269 ; goes to Newtown, 278; ready for battle, 279 ; described in action, 279 ; his skilful retreat at Newtown, 280; surprises Captain Harper, 288 ; invades Ulster, 289 ; his hu- manity, 290 ; starts from Niagara,
291 ; at Fort Schuyler, 292; de- stroys Canajoharie, 293 ; collecting his forces, 296 ; captures men sent out from Fort Schuyler, 299; scouts of, on the Mohawk, 302 ; in battle on Summit Lake, 305 ; takes cattle on the Mohawk, 309 ; orders horse killed for food, 311 ; secures lands for Indians after the war, 318; second visit to London, 320 ; entertained by the Prince of Wales, 321 ; his native dignity il- lustrated in London, 321 ; his home in Canada, 322 ; in Philadelphia and Albany, 323; letter from, about his school days, 324; his death, 324 ; his character, 325-327
Brant, King, Joseph's grandfather, 158
Brant, Mollie, 157; marries Si William Johnson, 159; her son William, 179
Brant, Nikus, 157
Brantford, home of Joseph Brant there, 322
Brant-Sero, J. O., in London, 322
Breck, Samuel, 369
Bressani, Joseph, priest among the Iroquois, 45
Brink, Aaron, 335
Brooks settlement, 212
Brown, Col. -, killed at Stone Arabia, 298
Brown, Squire -, settles on the Unadilla, 123
Bruehle, Stephen, visits the Susque- hanna, 33
Bruyar, Jacques, 44
Bryant, William C., of Buffalo, his estimate of Brant, 325
Buck Island, forces gathered at, 265 ; Sir John Johnson at, 296; an ex- pedition to, 303 ; Major Ross sails from, 305
Bull, Capt., -, a Tory, 179
Bundy, Capt, Peter, settles in Otego, 130
Burgoyne, Gen. John, his campaign,
185 ; captures Fort Ticonderoga,
188; his progress checked, 189; his surrender, 194
Burhans, Rev. Daniel, 374
Burnet, Governor William, young men sent to Oghwaga by, 38; builds fort at Oswego, 186
Burr, Aaron, introduces Brant to his daughter, 323; and the political wars of Otsego County, 367
Burr, Theodosia, entertains Brant, 323
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Bush, Elnathan, 345
Butler, Col. John, his patent, 103; commands Scotch Highlanders, 150; forbids Indians to injure set- tlements, 171; at Oriskany, 190; his Rangers, 203; treaty with Indians, 204; to join Brant, 210, 2II; at Tioga Point, 215 ; goes to Wyoming, 218; Pennamites with him at Wyoming, 220; regrets killing of Wells family, 241 ; at Newtown, 278; responsibility for Lieut. Boyd's death, 283; sails from Niagara, 291 ; invades the Mohawk, 292; lands of, confis- cated, 337
Butler, Capt. Walter, organizes Cherry Valley Massacre, 239; his barbarity at Cherry Valley, 249 ; at Newtown, 278 ; killed, 306- 307
Butler, Col. William, in command in Schoharie, 229-230; destroys Unadilla and Oghwaga. 234-236 ; starts to relieve Cherry Valley, 243; dams the lake at Coopers- town, 260 ; commands light infan- try, under Gen. Clinton, 272; de- stroys Indian villages on Cayuga Lake, 281; futility of his expe- dition to the Susquehanna, 314
Butler, Col. Zebulon, commands Forty Fort at Wyoming, 218
Butternut Creek, settlers on, 122, 127, 212; Tories on, 224 ; prisoners taken on, 227; Gen. Morris's ar- rival on, 366
Butts, Jacob, 342
CALDWELL, Capt. - , commands the enemy at German Flatts, 228
Campbell, Douglas, 118
Campbell, James, his coming to America, 120
Campbell, Col. Samuel, his house fortified, 168 ; succeeds Herkimer in command at Oriskany, 192, 238 ; returns to Cherry Valley, 333
Campbell, Mrs. Samuel, a prisoner at Cherry Valley, 250; at Kana- dasaga, 252
Campbell, Thomas, Brant wrongly put into his " Gertrude," 216
Campbell, W. W., his " Annals," 4; sketch of, 21-44 ; his father at the Cherry Valley massacre, 243; his account of Walter Butler's death, 307 ; reflections of, on the fate of the Iroquois, 317
Canadurango, Lake, settlements at, 124 ; scout on, 225 ; beaver dam at, 261
Canajoharie, chapel at, 51 ; Brant's home at, 140, 157, 160 ; patriots at, 148; Gen. Herkimer at, with his militia, 178 ; Gen. Clinton at, 258 ; destroyed by Brant, 293; men killed at, 302 ; Col. Willett at, 303 Washington visits, 333
Cannon, Mrs., put to death, 250
Carleton, Col. Guy, burns Ballston, 300
Carleton Island. See Buck Island Carr, John, builds mill on Carr's Creek, 133 ; aids Brant, 174
Carr, Percefer, settles in Edmeston, 123; Brant seeks food from, 183 : aids Tories, 212-213; made a prisoner, 226; Father Nash in his home, 376
Carr's Creek, 133, 351
Case, Samuel H., 380
Catherinetown, destroyed by the Sullivan Expedition, 280
Catskill Turnpike, 114 ; beginning of, 138, 354 ; a great highway, 379-391 Catskill, 384
Caughnawaga, invaded by Sir John Johnson, 291 ; devastation of com- pleted, 298
Caughnawaga, Canada, Mohawks living near, 319
Cayuga Lake, Indian villages on destroyed, 281
Cayugas, drawn into the war, 184 Chamberlain, Ivory, 378
Champlain, Samuel de, at Oswego, I86
Charlotte River, origin of the name, 30 ; Palatines make canoes on, 37 ; Sir William Johnson's patent on, IIO ; Brant on, 210 ; rafts made at mouth of, for prisoners, 251 ; Sir John Johnson at mouth of, 297 : lands on, confiscated, 337 ; road to, from the Hudson, 379, 388
Chatham, Earl of, on the employ- ment of Indians in the war, 164
Chemung, Brant with Butler at, 212; Sullivan expedition at, 278
Chemung River, rise in, after open- ing the dam at Otsego Lake, 272 Chenang, destroyed by Gen. Clinton, 276. See Binghamton
Cherry Valley, Gideon Hawley at, 66 ; during the French war, 67 ; Lindesay's patent at, 93 ; settled by Scotch-Irish, 119-121; roads to and from, 138-139 ; the church
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at, 140, 373 ; meeting of patriots in, 148 ; alarmed by news from Oghwaga, 166; Campbell house fortified at, 168 ; families arrive at, from Unadilla, 174; Col. Van Schaick goes to, with militia, 177 ; Herkimer returns to, 182 ; petition from, to Gov. Clinton, 204; to be attacked, 204-205 ; fort built at, 206; Brant invited to, 212; an expedition to, planned, 216, 224, 225 ; Col. Alden arrives in, 223; massacre of, 238-252; failure of authorities to defend, 239-240 ; the fort at, 245 ; monument at, facing 238 ; second massacre of, 302 ; Washington visits, 333; William Cooper arrives at, 357; on the Great Western Turnpike, 382
Choconut, destroyed by Gen. Clinton, 276
Chonobote, destroyed by the Sulli- van expedition, 281
Christiansen, Capt., 32
Church, Col. Timothy, settles in Bainbridge, 342
Clarke, George, his home on Otsego Lake, 94
Clarke, George, Lieut-Gov. 93
Claus, Col. Daniel, at Oswego, 185; letter from to Brant, 326
Clinton, Gov. George, his papers, 5; petition to, 204 ; criticises Gen. Gates, 222 ; advises sending mili- tia to Unadilla, 229 ; advises destruction of Oghwaga, 233 ; cor- respondence as to Gates, 255-257 ; sends Col. Gansevoort to Fort Schuyler, 293 ; suggest forts on the frontier, 315 ; visits Cherry Valley, 333
Clinton, Gen. James, on the Susque- hanna, 4 ; his brigade of the Sulli- van expedition, 258 ; builds dam at Otsego Lake, 260 ; sends Col. Van Schaick to Onondaga, 263 ; starts for Tioga Point, 271 ; portrait of, facing 272 ; descent of the Susque- hanna by, 271-277 ; reaches Tioga Point, 276
Clyde, Col. Samuel, goes to Una- dilla with Herkimer, 177 ; makes a report, 209, 227 ; at Oriskany, 238 ; on the destruction of Canajoharie, 293
Clyde, Dr. James D., 238
Cobleskill, Banyar's lands in, 112 ; battle of, 207-208 ; attacked, 305 Cockburn, William, 109
Colden, Alexander, surveyor, 109
Colden, Cadwalader, report of, on the Susquehanna, 38 ; and the land grievances of the Mohawks, 161 Collier, Isaac and Peter, 332 Colliers, Indians captured at, 172 ; Gen. Clinton at, 273-274 Cone, the brothers, 342
Conkey, Rev. Alexander, 373
Connecticut, emigration from, to frontier, 388 ; ancestral roots in, 339, 340, 342 ; people from, in Cooperstown, 358
Continental road, not opened by Gen. Clinton, 259
Conway, Gen. Thomas, warnings reach him from the frontier, 221 Cookoze. See Deposit
Cooper, J. Fenimore, his " Chron- icles of Cooperstown," 5 ; his early home, 104 ; his " Wyandotte," 112 ; arrives on Otsego Lake, 358, portrait of, facing 258; his writ- ings, 360
Cooper, Judge William, goes to Otsego Lake, 104; his work in settling the frontier, 357-364; Talleyrand his guest, 369 ; cost of his lands, 395
Cooperstown, site of an Indian re- sort, 21-23 ; George Croghan's lands at, 103 ; settled by Croghan, 126, 140-141 ; Gen. Clinton at, 261 ; settlers in from Connecticut, 343, 351 ; Talleyrand visits, 369 ; church at, 373 ; graves of Father Nash and Cooper at, 378
Corlear (or Van Curler), Arendt, saves Father Jogues, 45
Corn Planter, the, co-operating with Brant, 296; kindness of, to his white father, 299
Cornwallis, Gen. Lord, his sur- render, 208
Cosby's Manor Patent, 93
Council Rock, 21
Cox, Col. Ebenezer, angry words with Brant, 181 ; killed at Oris- kany, 190
Crafts, Capt. Samuel, 344
Croghan, Col. George, his Otsego patent, 103 : settles on, 126, 140- I41: note of unpaid, 169-170 ; Gen. Clinton on the site of his home, 261 ; loses his Otsego lands, 357
Crosby, Rev. Aaron, missionary, 81
Crysler, Adam, at Wyoming, 218, 219 ; goes to Vroomansville, 294 ; in battle at Summit Lake, 306
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Cully, Matthew, settles on the Sus- quehanna, 126; Gen. Clinton at his farm, 273 ; returns to his farm, 334
Cunahunta, an Oneida village, 27, 143 ; destroyed by Col. William Butler, 235 ; Gen. Clinton at, 274- 275
Currietown burned, 304
Cusick, David, his " History of the Six Nations," 25
Cutting, Leonard M., 395
DAKAZENENSERE, ISAAC, 77
Dartmouth College, origin of, 82 ; Brant sends his sons to, 323
Dartmouth, Earl of, employment of Indians in the war, 151
Deane, James, as interpreter, 80; as an Indian Commissioner, 210 ; at Otsego Lake, 262
De Forest, family of, settle on the Unadilla River, 123; Capt. Abel, 343
Delaware, the settlements on, in- vaded, 201 ; Brant gets supplies on, 207
Delaware County, western boundary of, 102
Delaware Indians, party of, captured on the Susquehanna, 74
Dellius, Rev. Dr. Godfriedus, among the Mohawks, 47
Demesses camp, Gen. Clinton at, 273
Dennison, Col., his agreement broken, 238
Depew, Chauncey M., 393
Deposit, formerly Cookoze, 101-102 ; Brant at, 237 ; railroad at, 390
Dickinson, Daniel S., 356
Diefendorf, Jacob, alive on his own grave, 304
Dietz, Capt., his family murdered, 305 ; his sufferings as a prisoner, 311
Dongan, Governor Thomas, his in- terest in the Susquehanna, 34; secures missionaries, 46; thwarts William Penn, 88-92
Donnelly, Terence, 383
Doxstader, John, commands Tories at Torlock, 304 ; a colt he lost, 311
Dunlop, Rev. Samuel, brings Scotch- Irish to Cherry Valley, 120; his church there, 140; escapes the massacre, 244
Dunnavan, Anthony, shot as a de- serter, 262
Dusler, John, his affidavit as to Her- kimer and Brant, 181
Dutch, the, as fur traders, 7, 87
Dwight, Rev. Dr. Timothy, his anecdote of Sir William Johnson and King Hendrick, 96; visits the Catskill Turnpike, 383-387
EAST SIDNEY, 349, 355
Edmeston, settlers in, 122, 123; three men killed at, 225
Edwards, Rev. Jonathan; interest in the Indians, 52, 54 ; at Stock- bridge, 56; hears from Gideon Hawley, 65
Edwards, Jonathan, Jr., at Oghwaga, 64
Eghwagy, Creek, white men reach, 35
Elerson, David, adventure of near Otsego Lake, 260: with the Sul- livan expedition, 283
Ellison, William, 357
Elm Grove, settled, 127
English, the, as fur traders, 8
Erie Canal, 389
Erie Railway, 389, 391
Esopus, turnpike to, 176; prisoners taken near, 293
Esther, Queen, at Wyoming, 219
E Tow O Koam, King of the River Indians in 1710 ; portrait of, facing 158
FENN, Rev. S., of Harpersfield, 172 Ferguson, William, 128
Fisher, Col. - , his failure to re- lieve Cherry Valley, 246
Forbes, Rev. Eli, at Oghwaga, 69, 72 Forbes, Virginia Isabel, the author's wife, dedication to, iii
Ford, Lieut .- Col. Jacob, sends out scouting parties, 213
Fort Dayton, 226 ; scalps taken at, 264; attacked, 295
Fort Herkimer, 226; troops at, 305 Fort Hunter, mission at, 49, 59; patent at, 92; Sir John Johnson at, 297
Fort Niagara, winter headquarters for Indians and Tories, 187 ; Brant at, 263 ; prisoners taken to, 289, 305
Fort Orange, 8, 32
Fort Oswego, British forces gathered at, 185; an ancient rendezvous, 186; attack from expected, 202; view of, facing 186; the enemy at, 291, 309; Willett attempts capture of, 309 ; Indians dismissed at, 310
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Fort Plank, 264
Fort Schuyler, new name for Fort Stanwix, 187; invested by St. Leger, 188; St. Leger's flight from, 194; Indians hovering about, 288; the enemy at, 292 ; suffering at, 300 ; its barracks burned, 302 ; abandoned, 305; settlement planted near, 339
Fort Stanwix, treaty of, 99-103 ; re- named Fort Schuyler, 187, which see ; 399
Forty Fort, besieged at Wyoming, 218, 238
Fox, Charles James, gives Brant a snuff-box, 320
Franchots, settle Louisville, 127
Franklin, Benjamin, 7 ; his Plan of Union, 63; at the treaty of Fort Stanwix, 100; scalp story attributed to, 313-314
Franklin, Col. William Butler in, 234 ; Sluman Wattles settles in, 348, 355, 373, 384
Franklin, William, 348, 357
Frederic, Harold, his " In the Val- ley," 249
Frontenac, Count Louis de Buode, burns Schenectady, 92; at Os- wego, 186
Fuller, Abraham, builds mills on the Ouleout, 135, 355
GAINE, HUGH, 108
Gano, Rev. John, chaplain of Gen- eral Clinton's brigade, 262 ; ac- count of departure from Otsego Lake, 271-272
Gansevoort, Colonel Peter, com- mands Fort Schuyler, 188 ; an- nounces attack on Cherry Valley as planned, 240; sent to Fort Schuyler, 293
Gates, General Horatio, neglect of frontier by, 221 ; responsibility for neglect, 255
Gathtsewarohare, destroyed by the Sullivan expedition, 281
Genesee country, Sullivan's expe- dition in, 281 ; New England men settle in, 338
Geneva. See Kanadesaga
George III, views as to Fort Stan- wix treaty, 102 ; receives Brant, 320
George IV entertains Brant, 321
Germaine, Lord George, Brant's in- terviews with, 162-164
German Flatts, massacre and burn- ing of, 67, 123 ; conference at with
Indians, 73 ; patriots of, 148 ; ren- dezvous of General Herkimer, 189; Arnold's relief force at, 193 ; scalp- ing parties near, 213 ; warnings as to attack on, 223 ; Brant destroys, 225-226; the enemy at, 288, 302 ; lands of Colonel Guy Johnson at, confiscated, 337 ; influx of settlers to, 339
Gilbert, Abijah, 368
Gilbertsville, 368
Glasford, -, a Tory, 235, 236, 275
Good Peter, chief of the Oneidas, 54; as a missionary, 68, 69
Goodyear, Jared, 343
Goodyear Mills, 23
Gordon, Dowager Duchess of, 127
Gould, Jay, his "History of Dela- ware County," 5, 120
Guild, Israel, 357
Grand River, lands of Mohawks on. 319
" Grant, Rev. Mr.," 376
Grants, New Hampshire, General Stark's attention to, 257, 34I
Gray, Captain William, his map, 130; describes the destruction of Ogh- waga, 235
Great Inland River, 19, 332
Greene, Talleyrand visits, 369
Groesbeck, John, his patent, 94
HALDIMAND, SIR FREDERICK, promises to the Indians, 150 ; "scalp story, 315 Halsey, Gaius Leonard, 388, 413
Halsey, Matthew, 344
Hamilton, Alexander, 368
Hancock, John, 151
Hand, General Edward, fails to pro- tect Cherry Valley, 239-240, 244,
246 ; visits Cherry Valley after the war, 333
Handsome Brook, Colonel William Butler's camp at its mouth, 236 Hanford, Uriah, 397
Hanna, William, goes to Unadilla with Herkimer, 178 ; his hotel, 385, 386, 387
Hare, Lieutenant Henry, hanged as a spy, 258
Harper, family of, settle in Cherry Valley, 120; settle in Harpers- field, 131 ; return to Harpersfield, 334
Harper, Captain Alexander, reports as to the enemy, 214 ; taken by Brant, 288 ; a chief saves his life, 290 ; opening roads, 380
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Harper, Colonel John, at school in Lebanon, 121 ; vigilance commit- tee formed in his house, 149; sent to Oghwaga, 169-171 ; captures Indians at Colliers, 171 ; at the in- terview between Brant and Her- kimer, 179; raises a company of light horse, 201 ; to raise state troops, 206 ; secures squadron of cavalry from Albany, 216; de- stroys Skoiyase, 281 ; watches Sir John Johnson, 296 ; relations with Indians after the war, 324 ; lands of, 348
Harper, Captain William, his pat- ent, 143; criticises Klock's con- duct at Cherry Valley, 246
Harpersfield, patent at, 131 ; vigil- ance committee formed at, 149 ; alarm at, 177 ; in Tory hands, 201 ; troops wanted at, 221 ; burned by . Brant, 289; settled again, 355 Hartford County, Conn., 339
Hartley, Colonel, follows Butler from Wyoming, 219; his action one of the causes of the Cherry Valley massacre, 229
Hartwick, John C., settles his pat- ent, 125
Hastings, Hugh, State Historian, his " Clinton Papers," 5
Hawley, Rev. Gideon, missionary, 23, 55 ; at Stockbridge, 57 ; goes to Oghwaga, 58-62 ; war inter- rupts his work, 63-67 ; labors else- where, 68
Hayes, Isaac, 343, 354, 389
Heckewelder, Rev. John, definition of the word Susquehanna, 18
Helmer, John A., gives warning to German Flatts, 223
Hendrick, King, at school in Stock- bridge, 56 ; anecdote of, 96 Hendrickson, 33
Herkimer, Abraham, 183
Herkimer, George, 183
Herkimer, Henry, his farm, 124, 212 Herkimer, General Nicholas, a Palatine, 38; sent to Unadilla, 177 ; interview with Brant, 178-184; calls out militia, 189 ; advance on Fort Schuyler, 190; at the battle of Oriskany, 190-192; wounded, 190; his death, 192
Herkimer County rapidly peopled, 339 Hicks, John, 128
Himmel, Baltus, 335
Hiokatoo, commands Senecas at Cherry Valley, 240, 247
Hotchkiss, Lemuel, 383
Honeoye, destroyed by the Sullivan expedition, 281
Honeyost, letters of, 83; eloquence of, 84
Houck flat, Herkimer's camp on, 179
Houghtaling, Abraham, 335
Howe, Sir William, sails for Ameri- ca, 165 ; Brant serves under, 168 House, John, captured by Brant, 269 Howard, Lord, of Effingham, 89 Hudson, Henry, 6
Hughston, James, 341, 349
Hughston, Jonas, 349
Hunt, Menad, 380
Hunt, Ransom, 342, 395
Huntington, Gurdon, 353
INGAREN, destroyed by General Clinton, 276
Iroquois, the greatest of all Indians,
II ; their coming to New York, 12 ; fort of, facing 12 ; their league, 13; their imperial domain, 14 ; never a numerous people, 15; their frontier lands, 16 ; trails of, 29 ; chiefs of, in London, 35, 50 ; Jesuit priests among, 43-47 ; Eng- lish missionaries to, 47-51 ; Elihu Spencer's labor among, 53 ; Gid- eon Hawley's, 56-68 ; four west- ern nations leaving the English, 69 ; Dr. Wheelock's interest in, 69-72, 76-79, 82; last missions among, 80-84; message from, to Charles II, 90 ; at the Fort Stan- wix treaty, 99-103 ; their course in the war, 149-156 ; land grievances of, 163; meet Herkimer at Una- dilla, 178 ; losses at Oriskany, 192: revenge their motive in the border wars, 195; council with, at Johns- town, 205; why they helped de- stroy Cherry Valley, 238; at massacre of Cherry Valley, 239- 252; attack Lackawaxen, 264; sent against Sullivan, 265 ; invade Minisink, 266 ; towns of, destroyed by Clinton, 276 ; at the battle of Newtown, 279; Sullivan destroys their villages, 280-283 ; they lay waste Schoharie and the Mohawk, 287-294; gather at Tioga Point, 296; the number of those who served in the war, 310 ; abandoned by the British, 310; their appall- ing losses, 316 ; their help to Eng- land in overthrowing France, 318 ;
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