The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800, Part 28

Author: Halsey, Francis Whiting, 1851-1919. 4n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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their homes after the war, 317-319; great central trail of, 391


Ithaca, road to, from the Ouleout, 380


JAMES II, 91 Jay, John, 367, 368


Jemison, Mary, 186, 187; describes Hiokatoo, 247 ; quoted, 283 ; fur- nishes food for Brant, 311


Jesuit missionaries, their devotion, 43 ; as political agents of France, 46, 318 ; Dongan's opposition to, 47


Jogues, Father Isaac, among the Mohawks, 43 ; murdered, 45


Johnson, Mrs., 357


Johnson, Colonel Guy, succeeds Sir William, 148 ; interferes with missionaries, 149 ; removes to Canada, 150; instructions to, from England, 151 ; bills of, for enter- tainment of Indians in London, 165; sends Brant to Oghwaga, 168 ; disagreement with Brant, 172 ; lands of, confiscated, 337


Johnson, Sir John, sent to Oghwaga, 75; attainted, II0; his loyalty to England, 152; at Oswego, 185; his Royal Greens at Wyoming, 218; at Newtown, 278 ; expected on the Mohawk, 288 ; his arrival and work of destruction, 291 ; sends Crysler to Schoharie, 294 ; his sec- ond expedition to the Mohawk, 295-300 ; his lands confiscated, 338


Johnson, Sir William, sends traders to Oghwaga, 39 ; portrait of, facing 40 ; builds chapel at Canajoharie, 51 ; his interest in missionaries, 53; aids Gideon Hawley, 58 ; asked to send no more rum to Indians, 62; influence of with the Iroquois, 63, 196 ; at the battle of Lake George, 66; opposes further settlements, 71 ; convenes German Flatts con- ference, 73; sends expedition against hostile Indians, 74-75; his Susquehanna patent, 95; his " dreamland tract," 96-97 ; nego- tiates treaty of Fort Stanwix, 99- 103; his lands in the Charlotte Valley, II0; his sudden death, 147 ; as to land grievances of the Mohawks, 161: marries Mollie Brant, 159; Joseph Brant his inter- preter, 160; his trading post at Oswego, 186; his work at a critical moment, 318


Johnson, William, a half - breed, anecdote of, 79, 160, 179


Johnston, Hugh, saves a family at Cherry Valley, 243; returns to Sidney, 335


Johnston, Milton C., Brant's camp on his farm, 179


Johnston, Witter, settles in Sidney with his father, 133; returns to Sidney, 335


Johnston, Rev. William, in the Mo- hawk Valley, 58 ; buys land at Sid- ney, III ; families follow him, 131 ; his early history, 131; settles in Sidney, 133-134; forced to aban- don his settlement, 173-175; re- turns to Unadilla with Herkimer, 177 ; asks for troops to be sent to Cherry Valley, 204; preaches in Cherry Valley, 224; escapes the massacre, 243 ; chaplain of Colo- nel Alden's regiment, 244; his death, 335.


Johnston Settlement, 26, 133-134; Colonel Harper at with a regiment, 170 ; destruction of, prevented, 172; dispersed by Brant, 173-175 ; Her- kimer's meeting at with Brant, 177-184 ; Butler at, 234. See Sid- ney.


Johnstown, Councils at, 161, 205 ; Sir John Johnson at, 291 ; Major Ross overcome at, 306


Jones, Robert, affidavit of, 214


Josephine, Empress of France, 359


KALM, PETER, 40


Kanadesaga, Cherry Valley massa- cre celebrated at, 251 ; incident at, 252 ; destroyed by the Sullivan expedition, 281


Kanaghsaws, destroyed by the Sul- livan expedition, 281


Kanawaholla, destroyed by the Sul- livan expedition, 280


Kellogg, Martin, an interpreter, 64 Kelly, Barnabas, statement by, 212 Kendaia, destroyed by the Sullivan expedition, 280


King, Rufus, 367


King, Thomas, 81


Kirkland, Samuel, missionary, 78 ; influence of with Oneidas, 149, 154 Kleynties, -, explores the Susque- hanna, 32


Klipnockie, early colloquial name for Oneonta, 335


Klock, Colonel -, fears for the fate of Tryon County, 221 ; or- dered to defend Cherry Valley,


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240; his failure to arrive in time, 243, 245


Klock's Field, battle of, 298


Klock, George, described as “ an old rogue," 161, 181


Knapp, -- , 127


Kortright, its early prosperity, 388


LACKAWAXEN, Brant's expedition to, 215 ; attacked, 264 ; Brant's bat- tle near, 267-268; the enemy at, 305


Lafayette, Marquis de, forts built at the instance of, 206


Lansing, John, 115 La Salle, 14


Laurens, settled, 128


Laurens, Henry, 128


Leather Stocking, 104; his farewell to Otsego Lake, 332, 361


Lebanon, Indian school at, 69; mis- sionaries from, 76; work of the school at, 82, 170; Brant's grati- tude to, 324


Lee, General Charles, 365, 367


Leonard, Joseph, 354


Le Quoy, F. Z., 359


Levy, Hayman, a trader, 107


Lindesay, his Cherry Valley patent, 93 ; settles on the patent, 119


Litchfield, Conn., 340


Little Aaron, saves Mr. Dunlop at Cherry Valley, 244


Little Beard's Town, destroyed by the Sullivan expedition, 281


Little Falls, eleven men killed at, 305


Livingston, John, 114


Livingston, Peter V. B., lands of, 114, 348


Livingston, Philip, his lands, 93-94


Logan, the Indian orator, 18


Long, Captain -, 231-232, 236 Louis Philippe, 370


Lounsbury, Professor T. R., quoted, 338 ; his " Life of Fenimore Coop- er, 358


Low, Cornelius, a New York mer- chant, 106-107


Low, Nicholas, settles on Otsego Lake, 125


Lull, Benjamin, 127


MACHIN, Captain Thomas, helps make the West Point chain, 258 ; goes against the Onondagas, 263 McAuley, Rev. William, 388


McDonald, -, a Tory, 201 ; in- vades Schoharie, 216


McGinnis, Robert, III, 131


McKean, Captain Robert, in the French war, 67 : invites Brant to Cherry Valley, 212; goes to Una- dilla as a scout, 223; Brant in- quires after, 247 ; marriage of, 244 ; killed, 304


McKee, Miss Annie, runs the gant- let, 312


Mckown, William, his adventure with Brant, 209


McMaster, David, settles in Unadil- la, 131 ; driven out, 174; goes to Unadilla with Herkimer, 178 ; es- capes massacre at Cherry Valley, 244 ; returns to Sidney, 335


McMaster, Professor John B., 381 McWhorter, Dr. - -, 130 Martin Brook, 353


Martin, Solomon, 353, 381, 395, 396 Maryland, early settlement of, 127 ; settlers after the war, 344


Massachusetts, emigration from to the frontier, 338


Mathews, Mayor David, 109


Mayall, Joseph, settles in Laurens, I28


Maynard, Lieutenant-Colonel Jon- athan, his life saved by Brant, 248 ; killed at Cobleskill, 208


Megapolensis, Dominie -, among the Mohawks, 46


Meredith, 377, 385


Metcalf, Simon, surveyor, 10I


Middleburgh, Palatines settle, 36 ; Sir John Johnson invades, 297


Middlefield, settled, 126 ; inhabitants of retire to Cherry Valley, 209 ; settlers return to, 234


Middleton, Peter, his patent, 104, 108


Milet, Rev. Peter, missionary among the Oneidas, 43


Miller, John, 357


Miln, Rev. John, missionary, 50


Minisink, invaded from Oghwaga, 214 ; route through to the Susque- hanna, 218; Brant invades, 237 ; battle of, 265-269 ; Brant's account of the battle, 267 ; prisoners taken at, 289 ; the enemy at, 302 Mitchell, Dr. Henry, 394


Mohawks, home of, 32 ; murder of Father Jogues, 45 ; Megapolensis visits, 46 ; Dr. Dellius among, 47 ; Bernardus Freeman labors among, 48 ; T. Moor's labors, 48 ; William Andrews's, 48 ; John Miln's, 50 ; at school in Stockbridge, 56-57 ; act as teachers, 77 ; consumption among, 83 ; and Sir William John-


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son, 96; village lands of, 101 ; King of, 158 ; Colonel Guy John- son's conference with, 149; re- move to Canada, 151 ; land griev- ances of, 161; go to Oghwaga, 166; at Unadilla to meet Her- kimer, 178-184 ; confined to one place, 180; not hostile to Penn, 216; number of in the war, 310 ; lands of on Grand River, 319; Brant translates the Gospel of Mark into tongue of, 323


Mohawk Valley, traders in, 3 ; pat-


ents in, 92-93 ; population before the Revolution, 117; state of in 1757, 124; invaded by Brant, 172 ; disaster enters, 223; main war scenes shifted to, 287 ; Sir John Johnson invades, 291 ; Butler and Brant invade, 292 ; Sir John's sec- ond invasion of, 298-300 ; Willett in command in, 301 ; Major Ross in- vades, 305; threatened with in- vasion, 309; return to, of the set- tlers, 331-336 ; Hugh White arrives in, 339 ; confiscation of Indian lands in, 337 ; William Cooper in, 357 ; granaries in exhausted, 363; railways in, 391


Mohicans, village of, 143


Monmouth, battle of, 203


Montcalm, Marquis de, dismantles Oswego, 187


Montour, Captain Andrew, destroys Indian town, 75


Montreal, original home of Iroquois near, 13


Moor, Rev. T., missionary, 48


Moore, Mrs. - , a prisoner at Cherry Valley, 250


Moore, Colonel John, settles on the Susquehanna, 334-


Moore, Jonathan, 342


Morgan, Lewis H., his " League of the Iroquois," 12 ; quoted, 43


Morris, churches of, 373


Morris, Gouverneur, 370


Morris, General Jacob, pioneer on Butternut Creek, 365-368, 380 Morris, Lewis, 366


Morris, Staats Long, his patent, 104, 366; visits the patent, 127; his route, 138, 379


Morrisania, 366


Mosley, Rev. Eleazer, missionary, 80, 144


Mosley, Rev. Elisha, 373


Moses, an Indian, 160 Mount Moses, 24


Mount Vision, 357


Mumford, George, settles at mouth of Cherry Valley Creek, 342 Munro, Henry, missionary, 51 Murphy, Timothy, his prowess in war, 232-233; with the Sullivan expedition, 287


Musson, William, 368


NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 359, 372


Nash, Rev. Daniel, his work as a founder of churches, 374-378


Newbury, Sergeant, hanged as a spy, 258


Newell, Nathan, 343


New England, pioneers from, on the frontier, 337-346


New Milford, 374


Newtown, Indians to make a stand at, 265; fortifications at, 278; battle of, 279-280


Noble, Curtis, 343, 354, 389, 397


of, Northumberland, Duke his relations to Brant, 320 ; friendship for Brant, 325-326


OAKS CREEK, 125 O'Bail, John, son of ;the Corn Planter, 299


Occum, Samson, educated Indian, 69 ; letter of, to the Iroquois, 155 Oel, Rev. John J., missionary, 51


Ogden, family of, in Otego, 130; driven out by Brant, 175; escape massacre at Cherry Valley, 244 ; Gen. Clinton camps on the farm of, 273, 275; return to Otego, 335 ; Daniel, 351


Oghwaga, chief town on the upper Susquehanna, 27; forms of the word, 27; Indians of. 28; young men sent to, 38; Elihu Spencer at, 53 ; Gideon Hawley at, 57, 60; fort built at, 65; Indians of, 67; hostile Indians at, 73; Sir John Johnson's expedition to, 75 ; Ralph Wheelock at, 79 ; Eleazer Moseley at, 80 ; Aaron Crosby at, 81 ; Smith and Wells at, 144 ; Mohawk head- quarters, 166; Col. Harper at, 170 ; message from to Gen. Her- kimer, 178; warriors at, 181 ; Indians at, after Oriskany, 195 ; Delaware settlements invaded from, 201 ; Brant returns to, 207 ; Minisink invaded from, 214; Butler returns to, from Wyoming, 219 ; Gov. Clinton advises de- struction of. 233; Col. William Butler destroys, 237; Brant at, waiting for Gen. Clinton, 265;


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Minisink invaded from, 265 ; Gen. Clinton at, 276 ; prisoners at, 289 ; settled from New England, 343 Oghwaga Hill, 276


Ogilvy, Rev. John, missionary, 51


Old England District, 127; Brant in, 214


Onawatoge, Brant destroys, 279 Oneidas, lands of, 16-17; mission- aries to, 49; at Oghwaga, 69; school among, 77; in Wisconsin, 83 ; loyal to Americans, 154 ; oppose a war measure, 184 ; invade Edmes- ton, 226-227 ; Brant tries to win over, 263; one of them kills Walter Butler, 307; numbers of them in the war, 310 ; confirmed in possession of their lands, 319 ; on the Susquehanna after the war, 332; lands New York bought from, 342


Oneonta, Indian relics burned at, 23 ; main street of, 29; settled, 129 ; settlers return to, 334; first church at, 373, 381 ; turnpike to, 388 ; prosperity of, 387


Oneonta Creek, store-house on, 142; Brant visits, 143


Onondaga, the Iroquois capital, 15 ; French intrigue at, 35 ; Col. Van Schaick's expedition to, 263 ; sentiment divided at, 318


Onondagas, drawn into war, 184; expedition against, 363


Oothout Voleert, his patent, 94


Oriskany, patent of, 93; battle of, 152, 188-192 ; meaning of, to fron- tier, 194; Indian revenge for losses at, 205, 315 ; monument at, facing 196


Otego, the patent, 105 ; surveyed, 127, 141 ; Gen. Clinton át, 174; Ransom Hunt settles in, 342


Otego Creek, village at mouth of, 24, 60; Sir William Johnson's " dream- land tract " not at, 97 ; Smith and Wells at, 143; Gen. Clinton at, 275


Otsdawa Creek, settled, 128


Otsego Lake, other names for, 21-22, 32 ; on an early map, 33; trans- portation by way of, 38; mission- aries at, 76; George Croghan at, 103; settlement at, 125-126; roads to and from, 139, 224, 379; Clinton at, 255-262 ; Col. Alden's regiment ordered to, 259 ; road to, from the Mohawk, 259 ; adventure of David Elerson near, 260; Anthony Dunn- avan shot at, 262; Gen. Clinton


starts from, 271 ; Washington visits, 333 ; settled from Connecti- cut, 342-343; William Cooper arrives at, 357 ; Gen. Jacob Morris at, 365 ; canal from, 390, 399


Otsego County, rapidity of its early settlement, 125, 346; first Judge of, 359; William Cooper's work in settling, 360-364 ; famine in, 363 ; political wars of, 367; its early population, 389; slaves in, 397


Otsego Hall, 357, 362


Otseningo, destroyed by Gen. Clin- ton, 276


Ouaquaga, 276


Ouleout, settled, 135 ; Col. William Butler goes down, 234; Indian huts on, 236 ; settled after the war, 341 ; mouth of, 347; road from, to Geneva, 380; settlers on,


384


Owego, meaning of the word, 101; line of property at, 103; destroyed by Gen. Clinton, 276 ; first settlers of, 355


Oxford, 387


PAGE, SHERMAN, 354, 399 Paine, Edward, 380


Painted Post, Indian forces collected at, 296


Palatine, settlement near, invaded, 288


Palatines, the German, in Schoharie and the Mohawk, 35; descend the Susquehanna, 37; their New York settlements, 38, 116 ; patriot- ism of, 148 ; supplanted by New Englanders, 337


Pallas, an Indian, 59, 60


Palmer's Island, 19


Parkman, Francis, 14, 40, 44


Patchin, Freegift, taken to Niagara as a prisoner, 289


Patrick, Capt. - , killed at Cobles- kill, 208


Peck, Judge Jedediah, 344, 398 Pennamite wars, 218


Penn, William, seeks to gain the Susquehanna, 34, 88; revenge on Governor Dongan, 91


Petrie, John J., his lands, 94


Phelan Place, in Cherry Valley, 241


Pontiac, conspiracy of, 72, 73


Pouchot, M., describes the Susque- hanna, 39


Preston, Amos, 343 Prevost, Captain Augustin, 126


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QUACKENBUSH, ADAM, 335 Quackyac, commands the Indians at Torlock, 304 Quebec, fall of, 69, 87


RAC-SOUTAGH, an Indian, 158 Renonard, Andrew, 127, 359


Rice, Rev. Asaph, at Oghwaga, 69 Richfield, the Schuyler patent at, 94; first settled, 124; Indians at, 224 ; Levi Beardsley settles in, 343 Ridgway, William, 127, 143


Rivington, James, 108 Roberts, Ellis H., 14


Rogers, Perry P., 336; his reminis- cences, 393


Rogers, Samuel, 342 Roosevelt, Theodore, 8


Root, Erastus, 342, 396


Rose, Colonel William, 343, 354


Ross, Betsy, makes the first flag, I88


Ross, Major -, invades the Mo- hawk, 305; driven back to the wilderness, 306


ST. LEGER, GENERAL BARRY, his campaign, 185 ; organizes his force at Oswego, 187; invests Fort Schuyler, 188; renews the siege, 193: his sudden flight, 194; on Lake Champlain, 300


Saga Yean Qua Resh, Tow, king of the Mohawks, 158


Sand Hill Creek, 24


Sands, Judge Obadiah, 397


Sands, Frederick A., 397


Sau, Rau Roh Wah, Indian chief, his death, 25


Sawyer, -, kills two Indians, 263 ; "Scalp Story," 313


Schenectady, missionaries at, 47; settlement of and burning of, 92 ; settlers coming into, 210, 264; to be destroyed, 300


Schenevus Creek, 23 ; settlement at mouth of, 122; Indians captured on, 171


Schoharie, meaning of the word, 31 ; Palatines in, 36; complaints from, 201; half in ruins, 202 ; invaded, 216; troops wanted at, 221 ; Col- onel William Butler arrives in, 230 ; after the Susquehanna expe- dition, 236; prisoners taken in, 264; main war scenes shifted to, 287 ; prisoners taken at, 292; Sir John Johnson desolates, 297; alarm in, 308 ; land values in, 395


Schuyler, David ; his patent, 94


Schuyler's Lake. See Canadurango Lake


Schuyler, Mayor Peter, in London with Iroquois chiefs, 35, 50, 158 Schuyler, General Philip, convenes conference with Indians, 151 ; con- fers with Herkimer, 177 ; endorses warnings from frontier, 204 Schwartz, -, 335


Scotch Highlanders, on the Mo- hawk, 116


Scotch-Irish, on the Susquehanna, 116; their influence in America, 118, 119; in Unadilla, 130 ; on the Ouleout, 135; in Sidney, 133; their patriotism, 148 ; in Connect- icut, 341 ; supplanted by New Englanders, 337 ; start migration to Wattles's ferry, 348


Scramling, family of, settles in One- onta, 129 ; Henry goes to Unadilla with Herkimer, 178; returns to Oneonta, 334 ; David and George settle in Oneonta, 334 Sears, Captain Isaac, 108


Senecas, lands of, 30, 32; peaceful times among, 152 ; drawn into the war, 184; at the Oswego confer- ence, 186; beaten at Oriskany, 188-192; fail to attend the Johns- town council, 205 ; join Brant, 215 ; at Wyoming, 218; why they went to Cherry Valley, 238 ; barbarities of, 247 ; invade Sleeper's Mills, 250 Sergeant, Rev. John, his death, 56, 340


Service, Captain -, a Tory, 212 ; killed, 231-232


Seymour, Horatio, his views of Or- iskany, 194 Sharon Centre. See Torlock Shaw, Joseph, 355, 368


Shawhiangto, destroyed by General Clinton, 276


Shays's rebellion, 339


Shemanwaga, destroyed by the Sul- livan expedition, 281


Shirley, General William, enlarges Fort Oswego, 187


Sidney, ancient fort at, 25; Indian giant who lived there, 25; the knoll at, 26 ; the settlement found- ed, 58 ; lands sold at, III ; Rev. William Johnston settles, 133-134; settlement broken up by Brant, 173-175; meeting of Herkimer and Brant at, 178-183 ; General Clinton at, 273; return of the Johnstons to, 335; Israel Smith settles in, 342 ; church at, 377


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Simms, J. R., his " History of Scho- harie County," 18


Six Nations, the. See Iroquois


Skenando, an Oneida chief, friend of the Americans, 154


Skillings, -, his skeleton found near Unadilla, 352


Skoiyase, destroyed by the Sullivan expedition, 281


Sleeper, Joseph, settles on the Otego patent, 128, 142 ; his home invaded by the Senecas, 250, 398


Sliter, family of, settle in Unadilla,


134 ; driven out by Brant, 173-175 Smith, Rev. C. J., missionary, 70


Smith, Captain John, 14, 17


Smith Hall, 129. 359


Smith, Israel, settles in Sidney, 342 Smith, Richard, 128, 139, 358


Smith and Wells, settle the Otego patent, 117; journal of their tour, 138-143


Snyder, Captain - describes Brant, 166


Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 48, 52


Spencer, Amos, settles in Maryland, 344


Spencer, Rev. Elihu, missionary to Oghwaga, 53. 340


Spencer, Jonathan, 336 Spencer, Orange, 336


Spencer, Thomas, half-breed orator, 148 ; brings news of St. Leger's coming, 189; killed at Oriskany, 192


Springfield, settled, 126 ; inhabitants retire to Cherry Valley, 209; de- stroyed by Brant, 211; General Clinton's stores taken to, 259 ; set- tlers in, 344


Stacy, Colonel -, hardships suf- fered by as a prisoner, 350


Stark, General John, wins the battle of Bennington, 189 ; commands at Albany, 209; opposes offensive operations, 230; his instructions from General Gates, 255; his re- sponsibility for frontier disasters, 256 ; weakens Colonel Willett, 308 Stars and Stripes, the, a rude copy made at Fort Schuyler, 188


Stewart, General - , associated with Brant, 320


Stiles, Job, messenger from Sullivan to Clinton, 269


Stockbridge, Indian school at, 52, 56, 57


Stone Arabia, two persons killed in, 264 ; battle of, 298


Stone, Colonel W. L., his " Life of Brant," 5, 157 ; sketch of, 74; de- scribes battle of Oriskany, 190- 192; Brant at Minisink, 268 ; quoted, passim


Stuart, Rev. John, missionary, Brant assists in translations, 160; sketch of, 180


Sturges, Judge Hezekiah, 343


Sullivan, General John, his expe- dition, 220 ; Congress orders it, 257 ; Clinton's brigade at Otsego Lake, 255-262; the enemy sent against, 265; sends a detachment to meet Clinton, 276 ; short of sup- plies, 277 ; starts from Tioga Point, 278 ; battle of Newtown, 279 ; towns he laid waste, 280-282 ; fu- tility of his work, 214


Summit Lake, Sir John Johnson's expedition camps on, 297 ; battle at, 305


Susquehanna, historic interest of, 3 . fur traders on, 8, 34 ; fort on, pro- posed, 35; Captain John Smith at mouth of, 17 ; meaning of the name, 18; Iroquois name for, 19; Indian population of, 21 ; villages on, 21 ; trails on, 29-31 ; first white men on, 32; William Penn's in- terest in, 24 ; Colden's report on, 38 ; Sir William Johnson's interest in, 39; missionary field on, 72 ; expedition to, 74; Penn seeks to purchase, 88 ; conveyance of, to the English, 89-90; early patents on, 93-96; Wallace patent on, 106; Scotch-Irish settle on, 116- 118; road to from Catskill, 138 ; road down from Otsego Lake, 139; Brant and the Mohawks ar- rive on, 166 ; Herkimer descends, 178; settlements on destroyed, 202 ; Indians about to "strike " on, 205; Brant collecting Tories on, 207 ; view of confluence of, with the Unadilla, facing 102; Clin- ton's descent of, 272-277 ; flood in, at opening of dam at Otsego Lake, 271-272 ; a highway for invaders, 287 ; desolation on, 3II, 331 ; re- turn of settlers to, 332-336, 342- 346, 348-353; Talleyrand's visit, 368-371 ; tour of, by Dr. Burhans, 374; churches founded on, 373- 378 ; Bishop Philander Chase's visit, 375 ; Robert S. Witmore on, 375 ; turnpikes to, 379-391 ; pro- posed canal on, 390; isolation of settlements on, 392


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Susquehanna Flats, 26. See also Sidney, Johnston Settlement and Unadilla, Old Town


Susquehanna Indians, meet Captain John Smith, 17 ; remains of, 19


TALLEYRAND, Brant meets, 323 ; visits the Susquehanna Valley, 368-371


Teedyuscung, a Delaware chief, 74 Tee Yee Ho Ga Row, Emperor of the Iroquois in 1710, portrait of, facing 158


Thurston, Increase, 127


Tioga County, 355


Tioga Point, meeting place of trails, 30 ; Indians at. 57 ; Line of Prop- erty at, IO1 ; Colonel John Butler starts from, for Wyoming, 215, 218 ; council at, in preparation for Cherry Valley massacre, 240, 264 ; prisoners at, 251 ; Clinton starts for, 271 ; men sent from, to meet General Clinton, 276; the Sullivan Expedition departs from, 278 ; prisoners at, 289; Indian forces collected at, 296; Louis Philippe at, 370


Torlock, prisoners taken at, 264; battle of, 304 ; cattle captured at, 305


Towanoedalough, a Mohawk town, 23, 59


Towyjaronsere, John, Brant laments his death, 278


Tribes Hill, plundered by Sir John Johnson, 291


Trowbridge, Captain -- , 355


Tryon County, events in, 5 ; Camp- bell's " Annals " of, 21 ; corner of, 24; territory of, 119 ; patriots in, 148 ; militia of, under Herkimer, 177, 189 ; pays the penalty of Ind- ian losses at Oriskany, 195; dan- ger in, 221, 228 ; its most opulent parts destroyed, 294 ; Tories weak- ening in, 295 ; decline in militia of, 303; losses in, 312, 313


Tunnicliffe, John, settles in Rich- field, 123 ; the enemy at his house, 2II, 224; returns to Richfield, 244


Tuscaroras, lands of, in New York, 17, 319; lands New York bought of, 342


ULSTER, invaded by Brant, 289; enemy lurking in, 308


Unadilla, old town, Indian lands in, 16; Indian monument near, 24;


territory originally embraced in, 26 ; meaning of the word, 26; Gid- eon Hawley at, 60; settled by Scotch-Irish, 130, 131 ; village of Mohicans near, 143; settlers at, retire to Cherry Valley, 166; Brant disperses the settlement in, 173- 175; Tories at, with Brant, 176 ; Herkimer meets Brant at, 178-184 ; in the hands of Tories, 182 ; force Brant had at, 192; no patriots left in, 202 ; preparations at, to attack Cherry Valley, 204 ; Brant's return to, 206 ; a resort of Tories and ne- groes, 209 ; Colonel Butler expect- ed at, 211 ; size of the force at, 214 ; attack on expected, 215; re- turn of the enemy to, after Wy- oming, 220; scout goes to, 224 ; prisoners taken at, 225; Governor Clinton advises sending militia to, 229-230; size of enemy at, 231, 234 ; Timothy Murphy at, 233; Colonel William Butler destroys, 234-236 ; General Clinton at, 273- 275; prisoners taken to, 292 ; an invading force marches to, 296


Unadilla, township of, 374, 381 ; rec- ords of, 397


Unadilla, village of, St. Matthew's Church farm, 114; the Binne- kill at, 335 ; settled from Connect- icut, 342 ; ironware found buried at, 352 ; founders of, 353 ; St. Mat- thew's Church founded, 376; Dr. Timothy Dwight visits, 385, 386, 387 ; an inland river port, 387 ; reminiscences of, 413


Unadilla Forks, settled, 123


Unadilla River, part of Fort Stan- wix line, 3, 101, 103; Oneida terri- tory. 116; confluence of, with Sus- quehanna, 15; mouth of, resort of hunters, 25; view of, facing 102 ; settlement of, 122 ; men killed on, 225; Brant retreats down, 226- 227 ; General Jacob Morris at mouth of, 365 ; Robert S. Wetmore on, 375 ; Dr.Timothy Dwight vis- its, 387 ; land values in, 395


Union, meeting at, between Clinton and Sullivan's men, 276


Upton, Clotworthy, his patent, 104 Utsyantha Lake, battle at. 306


VAN DERWERKER, Captain John, settles in Oneonta, 129; returns to Oneonta, 334 Van Hovenburg, Lieutenant, 273


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Van Rensselaer, General Robert, at the battle of Klock's Field, 298 ; findings of Court of Inquiry about, 297


Van Schaick, Colonel -, goes to Cherry Valley, 177; expedition against the Onondagas, 263


Van Valkenberg, Joachim, settles at mouth of Schenevus Creek, 121, 141-142; General Clinton at his farm, 273-274 ; killed, 306


Van Vechten, Abraham, 114


Vissher, Colonel, his home invaded, 291


Vermont sufferers settle in the Sus- quehanna Valley, 341


Visscher, -, map by, 32


Vrooman, - -, Brant's ineffective help of, to escape, 251


WADDELL, R. R., 108 Wagner, Joseph, 183


Wallace, Alexander, the patent called his, 106-115; a Tory, 109; attainted, IIO


Wallace, Hugh, a New York mer- chant, 106 ; a Tory, 109 ; attainted, IIO


Walling, Simeon, 335


Warner, George, made a prisoner, 305


Warren, Captain Benjamin, de- scribes Colonel Alden's arrival at Cherry Valley, 223 ; his diary, 239. 242


Warren's Bush, invaded by Major Ross, 305


Warren, Sir Peter, aids Stockbridge School, 56


Washington, George, letter to the Iroquois, 155; his early battles, 176; his campaigns defensive ones, 196 ; in the Highlands, 203 ; directs Sullivan's Expedition, 257 ; as to General Clinton's supplies, 277 ; his instruction to Sullivan to be severe, 282 ; intervention of, in behalf of the Iroquois, 319; visits Cherry Valley and Otsego Lake, 333


Wasson, Catherine, 238


Wattles's Ferry, 135; Nathaniel Wattles establishes, 347, 353 ; terminus of Catskill Turnpike, 379; Dr. Timothy Dwight at, 384


Wattles, Nathaniel, 341, 380, 397 Wattles, Sluman, as a boy in Leba-


non, 341, 347: settles in Frank- lin, 348; work on the Catskill


Turnpike, 380 ; his account book, 397, 398


Wauteghe, Indian town, 60. See Otego


Wavonwanorem, Adam, 77


Wawarsing, burned, 305


Weiser, Conrad, the elder, leader of the Palatines, 36


Weiser, Conrad, the younger, 37 ;


conversation with an Onandaga chief, 39 ; at Onondaga, 56


Weller, David, 343


Wells, Jane, killed at Cherry Valley, 241; story of her cap, 252


Wells, Captain John, builds fort at Oghwaga, 65 ; killed with his fam- ily at Cherry Valley, 241


Wells, John, escapes massacre at Cherry Valley ; anecdote of, 323


Wetmore, Robert G., 375


Wempel, Abraham, 208


West Canada Creek, Willett's pur- suit of Major Ross on, 306


Wheelock, Rev. Dr. Eleazer, his school at Lebanon, 69, 340


Wheelock, James, 323 Wheelock, Ralph, anecdote of, 79


White, Hugh, pioneer in the Mo- hawk Valley, 339


White, James, 355


White, Dr. Joseph, of Cherry Valley, 342


Whiting, Major Daniel, takes pris- oners on the Butternut Creek, 227; at Cherry Valley, 241, 242 ; ordered to Otsego Lake, 259 Whitney's Point, 355


Willett, Colonel Marinus, second in command at Fort Schuyler, 188 ; leads sortie at Fort Schuyler, 193 ; wanted again, but not available, 230 ; portrait of, facing 301 ; ar- rives in the Mohawk Valley, 301 ; at the battle of Torlock, 304 ; drives the enemy into the wilder- ness, 305-307 ; attempts to capture Fort Oswego, 309


Wilmot, William, 342


Wilson, Peter, a Cayuga chief, speech of, 331


Windsor. See Oghwaga


Winedecker, George, a trader, 59


Wisner, John, enlists men on the Susquehanna, 167


Woodbridge, Timothy, missionary at Stockbridge, 52, 56; goes to Oghwaga, 57 ; returns to Albany, 61 Woodruff, Henry S., 389


431


INDEX


Woolley, Joseph, missionary, 77 Worcester, Mass., destruction of Presbyterian Church at, 132 ; men from settle on the Unadilla, 134 Wormwood, Lieutenant Matthew, killed at Cherry Valley, 208 Wyalusing, 35, 65, 88


Wyoming, Dr. Wheelock's interest in, 71 ; families enter by the Sus- quehanna route, 142 ; motives for


the massacre of, 197; attack on, planned early, 205; Colonel But- ler to attack, 215; settled from Connecticut, 217 ; the massacre of, 218-220; relation of the massacre at, to the Cherry Valley massacre, 238


YAGER, W. E., 23 Young, David and John, 213, 334


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