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To the Oather by the name of Aionyedice, otherwise Longnarrow Lake: the genl Corse this Day S. W.
SEPTEMBER 13, 1779. This Morning the Genl Beat at day lite the army marched 1 ½ miles to Agusta Town, where the army lay by To kill provisions, viz Cattle, and Issue to the Troops. Last Eavening' a party of men Commanded by Lieut Boyd, in number 25, were sent To Reconniter the Jenessee Town, who did not Return till the next day ; on there Return were met by 150 or two Hundred Indians; After a Considerable Action the offasir and 2/3 of his Party ware Either Killed or maid prisoners the men who Escaped informs that the party ware sarounded, But fought and Retreted & Killed several, they think as many as ware Lost on our side. About half an hour afterwards Myself and fore Chane Caryers who ware about one and a half Miles Advanced of the troops ware fired on by Several Indians who Lay in Ambush: a Corporal of the name of Calhoun, who came Vollenteerly with me, was mortally wounded and Died the next day; the Indians pirsued us ¼ of a Mile, but without success; we being Unarmed was obleeged to Run; marched this Day 8 Miles To an Indian Town by the Name Gessauraloughin, half a mile from the chief indian Town ; an Indian was scalped by a Rifleman; the Genl Corse this day West.
SEPTEMBER 14. This day the troops Did not March till 22 o'clock, on account of there Being imployed in destroying Corn; Marched this day 5 ½ Miles to the Chief Chenasee Town Calld. the Chenassee Castle 2 ¼ Miles ; Crossed the chenassee River Likewise, the most Delitefull Bottom I ever saw, supposed to contain 10,000 acres, chiefly cleared fit for excellent Meadow., these flats and the land Adjacent is allowed to exceed any thing in America.
The Chenassee Castle, or the town of that name, contained about 125 Note Indians Housis which ware burnd. the next Day; Likewise about 150 or 200 acres of fine Corn was pulled of the stalks and Burnt; at this Town we found the dead Boadis of two of our men who ware takin the day Before and Inhumanly Murdred by the Savages; one supposed to be the Boady of Lt. Boyd, and the oather a sajt. there heads were Cut off and skinned, there Toe Nails pulled off, in short it was the most shocking site my Eys Ever saw.
SEPTEMBER 15th 1779. This day, after destroying the Town and Corn, we Returned a Bout 5 miles and Encamped in the Chenessee flatts.
SEPT 16th. This Morning the troops ware imployed till 10 oclock Destroying Corn we then Marched 7 Miles to Ajutsa where the Army Encamped for the Night. Parties ware sent in sarch of the Dead Boadis who ware with Lt. Boyd: 16 of them were found, being all that ware missing except two ; from Circumstance it appeared they had Defended Themselves very Bravely till they ware all Kild. and it is thought Kild a nomber of the Enemy, as many fresh Indians Graves were found at Chenassee, which I omitted Entring in my Remarks of the 14 ; some ware opanid by the soldiers Contrary to orders, and the Boadies of Indians found that ware shot; we Destroyed the Remainder of the Corn at this town this eavenning.
SEPT 17th. This morning the Army marched at sunrise; marched this day 12 ½ . miles to Haunyauya were we had left a Garason which I omitted mentioning in my Remarks of the 12th, where we found all safe.
SEPTEMBER 18th. 1779. Marched this day from Haunyauya to Kanandague, Being 13 ½ Miles, the Ground not being Convenient for Incamping, the Army marched across the outlet of Kenindugui Lake, about one mile further, and Incamped for the Night.
SEPT 20. This day a Detachment of six Hundred men, with a sufficiancy of offasirs Under the Command of Col Win. Butler, ware sent into the Cayuga Country, with which Detachment I was ordred; they marchd from Connadesago 3 o'clock, P. M. Marched this day Eight Miles to an Indian Town by the name of Sauyou, * where about Eight Acres of Corn was Destroyed.
The following notes by General John S. Clark are taken from No. I of the. Publications of the Caynga County Historical Society, Auburn, N. Y., 1879:
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* SCAWTACE or Long Falls, an important Indian town of eighteen
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143 THOMAS GRANT.
SEPTEMBER 20th, 1779. The Detachment marchd this Morning at 7 o'clock A. M. 16 ½ Miles to a smawl Indian Settlement * 1 ½ Miles short of Cayuga Castle, where we Incamped for the Night, at 8 ½ miles Crossed the outlet of the Cayuga I.ake, which in Brenth was a Bout 70 Perches, and more than middle Deep to the Men. Neer the outlet we Destroyed two Indian Housis. The Name of The Place Choharo +
, and Destroyed .on the Lak in Different plasis Houses and Acros of Corn, but saw no Enemy. The Genl Corse since we crossed the out let neerly South, the Road not more than ½ A mile from the Lake at furthest : The Land midling.
SEPTEMBER 22d, 1779. Marched this Day at 6 o'Clock, A. M. 2 Miles to the Cayuga Castle++ an Indian Town of that name Containing in Number About 15 very Large Square Logg Housis. I think the Building Superior to any yet hive seen. Cattle were Killed and three Days Beef Issued to the troops ; then Fetague partes were sent to destroy the Corn, to the amount of about 110 Acres, tho not all Distroyed this Day; two oather Towns were Discovered, one 23 ½ miles from the Senica Lake, which we called upper Cayuga,* containing 14 Large Housis ; the oather About two Miles East of the Castle which we called Cayuga* Containing 13 Houses; the trupes wer all imployed this day in Destroying Corn till after darke. We found at this Town apples, peaches, Potatos, Turnops, Onions, Pumpkins, Squashes, and Vegatabils of Various kinds in Great Plenty.
SEPTEMBER 23d 1779. This day the trups ware imployed till 3 o'clock P.M. in Finishing the Destruction of the Corn, and Burning the aforementiond. Towns within.Marched 5 Miles to an Indian town By the name of Chandot # or Peach Town, Remarkable for a Large Peach-orchard Containing Hundred fine Thriving Peach Trees, like-wise Acres of Corn. This town contained about 12 or 14 houses, chiefly old Buildins; part of the Corn was Destroyed This Eavening.
SEPTEMBER 24th 1779. This morning the trups ware imployed in finishing the Distruction of the Corn and peach Trees; at 10 o'clock A.M.. fire was set to the Town, And the Detachment went of the Ground. Marchd this day 16 ½ Miles and incamped on a Pleasant Hill ** neer a fine Creek, About one hour after Dark: the Land we passed This day well Timbered, and the Soyl very good, But very scarce of water ; 9 miles from Chorndete we Crossed a streem of water which Fell over Rocks So feet Parpendiculor ; 3 miles From we crossed a second streemn jf which fell About 80 feet parpendicular, which
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ber 8, during the advance of the army by a party of volunteers under Cot. Harper. George Grant mentions .the fact of "several fish ponds abounding opposite the town." These were circular enclosures of stone from thirty to forty feet in diameter, built lip 011 the rocky bed of the stream, where the water was neither very deep or rapid, so constructed as to permit the water to pass througb, but to retain the fish.
* GEWAUGA, a small hamlet on the present site of Union Springs in the town of Springport, on the east side of Caynga lake.
% Choharo. - This was the Tichero or St. Stephen of the Jesuit Relations, said to signify the place of rushes located at the foot of Cayuga take on the east side, at the exact point where the bridge of the Middle Turnpike left the east shore. The trail across the marsh followed the north bank of an ancient channel of the Seneca river, which at an early day took that course. The turnpike afterwards followed substantially the line of the trai and crossed the present line of the Cayuga and Seneca canal three times between Mud Lock and the old Dumont tavern on the opposite
side of the marsh. The salt springs mentioned by Father Raffeix in 1672, were on the west side of the marsh about half a mile north of the N Y. C. Rail Road bridge, and on the bank of the ancient river channel.
++ CAYUGA CASTLE, an Indian town containing fifteen very large
houses of squared logs, located on the south line of the town of Springport in Cayuga County, on the north bank of Great Gully brook, and from one to two miles from the lake.
# UPPER CAYUGA, an Indian town of fourteen very large houses
located near the north line of the town of Ledyard in Cayuga County, on the south bank of Great Gully brook, and as appears on the map, between one and two miles from the lake.
# EAST CAYUGA, or Old Town, contained thirteen houses located in
the south-east corner, of the town of Springport, as indicated on the p~ap, from three to four miles from the lake. A site in the south-west corner of Fleming was a site of this town at about this date.
+ CHONODOTE, so named on Capt. Lodge's map, an Indian town of fourteen houses, on the site of present Aurora in Cayuga County; according to George Grant's journal it contained fifteen hundred peach trees.
** On the hill north of Ludlowville.
++ The first of these falls was~robably on Mill Creek, two and a half miles south-west of Nortlmville the second near Lake Ridge in the town of Lansing.
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partly after Emptyed Them Selves into the Cayuga Lake. Saw no Enemy this day; the Genl Course S. 30. E.
SEPTEMBER 25th 1779. Marched this morning at 6 o'clock, and Incamped at an Indian Town 3 ½ miles above the Cyuga Lake; the Town appeared to be Just Consumed, supposed to be Burnt by a Detachment from Genl Sullavin's Army.* The Town was situated on a Rising Ground, in a large beutifull Vally; The Soyl Eaqual to or Rather Superior To any in the Contary. Through which Runs Sevaral fine Streams of water: the first a Creek about 4 poles wide, which falls from the Mountain the East side of the Valley about 120 feet parpendicular, into which Crick three oather fine streams Empis. The second Crick is the prinsable Supply of the Cayuga Lake, navigable for Large Canews or Boats To the Town.
(The journal here ends abruptly)
*COREORGONEL was burned by the detachnient under Colonel Dearborn. See his account Septem-
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a small force up the west side of Seneca lake to complete the destruction of Keinshong and its cornfields, which had been partly effected on the 9th, and make explorations for other towns. Having finished its work, the party joined the main army in the evening. At the same time, the General detached Colonel Peter Gansevoort with 100 men selected from the New York Regiments, with instructions to go to Albany, via Fort Schuyler, and bring forward the heavy luggage which had been stored at those places, previous to the setting out of the expedition. A few families of the Mohawks who professed to be friendly to the United States, occupied what was known as the Lower Mohawk Castle. By some means General Sullivan had been informed that these Indians were acting as spies for the hostile part of the nations, and directed Colonel Gansevoort to capture the inhabitants and destroy their town. On the representations of their neighbors, of the friendly disposition of these Indians, he set a guard over their town, but took the men to Albany; where, upon the statement of Schuyler, * Washington ordered their immediate release with directions, "To lay them under such obligations for their future good behavior as they should think necessary."
In Colonel Gansevoort's letter to General Sullivan, he describes the movements of his detachment
Albany, October 8th, 1779.
DEAR Sir:-
Agreeable to my orders, I proceeded by the shortest route to the lower Mohawk Castle, passing through the Tuscarora and Oneida Castles, where every mark of humanity and friendship was shown the party. I had'the pleasure to find that not the least damage nor insult was offered any of the inhabitants. On the 25th ultimo, I arrived at Fort Schuyler, where refreshing the party, I proceeded down the river, and on the 29th effectually surprised the lower Mohawk Castle, making prisoners of every Indian inhabitant.
They then occupied but four houses. I was preparing, agreeable to my orders, to destroy them, but was interrupted by the intercessions and entreaties of several of the inhabitants of the frontiers, who have lately been driven from their settlements by the savages, praying they might have liberty to enter into the Mohawk's houses, whilst they could procure other habitations. And well knowing these persons to have lately lost their all, humanity tempted mein this particular, to act in some degree, contrary to orders. At this I could not but be confident of your approbation, especially when you are informed that this Castle is in the heart of our settlements and abounds with every necessary, so that it is remarked, that these Indians live much better than most of the Mohawk river farmers. Their, houses were well furnished with all necessary household utensils, and great plenty of grain; several horses, cows and wagons, of all which I have an inventory, leaving them in care of Major Nukerck of that place, who distributed the refugees in the several houses. Such being the situation, I did not allow the party to plunder.
The prisoners arrived at Albany the 2d inst., all closely secured in the fort. Yesterday, the 7th, I received a letter from General Schuyler, (I have enclosed a copy,) respecting those prisoners, and desiring the sending the prisoners (Jown might be postponed until an express arrived from his Excellency, General Washington. Agreeable to this request, a
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* The following is General Schuyler's letter to Colonel Gansevoort, dated Albany. October 7, 1779
DEAR SIR
Having perused General Sullivan's orders to you, respecting the Indians of the lower Mohawk Castle and their property. I conceive they are founded on misinformation given to that gentleman. Those Indians have peaceably remained there, under the sanction of the public faith, repeatedly given them by the Commissioners of Indian affairs on condition of peaceable demeanor; this contract they have not violated, to our knowledge. It is, therefore, incumbent upon us as servants of the public to keep the public faith inviolate, and we therefore entreat you to postpone the sending the Indians from hence until the pleasure of his Excellency, General Washington, can be obtained and a letter is already dispatched to him on the occasion, and in which we have menLioned this application to you.
I am, dear sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
PH. SCHUYLER.
President of the Board of Commissioners for Indian Affairs. N. Dep't.
COLONEL GANEVOORT
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Sergeant and twelve men are detained to keep charge of the prisoners until his Excellency's pleasure is known. * * *
I am, Dear Sir, with Respect.
Your Most Obedient and Very humble Servant,
PETER GANSEVOORT.*
HONORABLE MAJOR GENERAL SULLIVAN.
At the same time (September 20th,) a detachment of six hundred men under the command of Lieutenant Colonel William Butler, + of the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, was sent to lay waste the towns on the east side of the Cayuga lake. Thomas Grant accompanied this detachment, and his journal, which unfortunately ends abruptly September 25th, and the journal of George Grant, Sergeant Major of the Third New Jersey Regiment, with Sullivan's report, are the principal sources of information in regard to their movements.
It was 2 o'clock P.M., when the detachments of Gansevoort and Butler set out from Kanadesaga for Skoi-yase, which they reached at dark and encamped there for the night. The next morning several fields of corn were discovered about the town, which' Major Scott,t with two hundred men, was detailed to destroy.
While Major Scott and his party were engaged in completing the distinction of Skoi-yase, the rest of the detachment pushed forward at seven o'clock in the morning. A march of eleven miles brought them to Cayuga lake, the outlet of which they crossed where it was seventy perches in width, wading up to their breasts in water. Just at the
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* See biographical sketch accompanying steel engraving.
+ Colonel William Butler was the second of five brothers of a family which came from Ireland and settied in Cumberland county, Pa., prior to 1760.
On the formation of the 4th Regiment he was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, October 25th, 1776. As a military officer he early acquired considerable distinction. When, in the spring of 1778, the whole frontier was threatened by Indians and Tories, Timothy Pickering wrote to Washington for an officer of established reputation for bravery and capacity," and adds, "if we are not misinfommed Lieutenant Colonel William Butler has been most conversant with the Indians and their mode of fighting."
Immediately after the battle of Monmonth, in which both his regiment and himself bore an important part, his regiment, with four companies of Morgan's riflemen, was stationed at Schoharie, N. Y. Here his bravery and experience as an officer, which was second to none of his rank, rendered him greatly efficient in quieting the disaffected, and establishing confidence and courage among the people. In order to break up the haunts of the hostile Indians on the Susquehanna, Colonel Thomas Hartley, with the 11th Pennsylvania, ascended the river as far as Tioga, which he destroyed, together with Queen Esther's plantation and Wyalusing; and about the same time, Colonel Butler, the riflemen and a corps of twenty rangers, marched to the waters of the Delaware, descended that stream for two days, and then struck off for the Susquehanna, which they reached at Unadilla. The Indians fled on their approach, leaving behind great quantities of corn, some cattle and much of their household goods. Butler pushed on to Oghkwaga, which was a well built Indian town, there being a number of good farm houses on each side of the river. Destroying both these towns, and an Indian castle three miles below, the mills at Unadilla, and the corn, Butler returned to Schoharie. He ~vent down the river with Clinton in 1779, to Tioga, where he was transferred to Hand's Brigade. He served in the army until the close of the war when he moved to Pittsburg. Here the remaining years of his life were spent in conmparative quiet and comfort until his death, in 1789. He was buried in Trinity church-yard, Pittsburgh, Pa. The inscription upon the tablet erected to his memory, has become well nigh effaced by the storms of nearly a century.
++ Major William Scott, of Cilley's 1st New Hampshire Regiment, was of Scotch-Irish descent his father, Alexander, being one of the first settlers of Peterborough, moving into that town in 1742. While preparing a permanent settlement, he left his wife in Townsend, Mass., where William was born, May, 1743. When Seventeen years of age he became connected with Goff's Regiment, and was noted for his ener,,y and courage. In 177 , he was a Lieutenant in one of the Massachusetts Regiments, and fou,ht with desperate courage. His leg was fractured early in an engagement in which his regiment participated, but he continued fighting until, receiving other wounds, he fell amid was taken prisoner. Upon the evacuation of Boston he was carried to Halifax and thrown into prison, but escaped by undermining its walls. He was in Fort Washington at the time of its surrender, November 17th, 1776, and was the only person who escaped, which he effected by swimming the Hudson by night, where it was a mile in width. He was promoted to a captaincy in a Massachusetts Regiment, but preferring the New Hampshire line, he accepted a captaincy in Cilley's Regiment. He was with the army until 1781, when he entered the naval service, in which he continued until the close of the war. He died at Litchfield, N. H. September 10th, 1796. aged fifty-three years. - N. H. Hist. Coll.
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outlet of this lake, was the old Indian town, Tichero; which the Jesuit fathers called St. Stephen. The journalist says, "Near the Outlet destroyed two Indian houses. The name of the place is Choharo." The site was on the east side of the river, at a point where it was crossed by the great trail, and near where it was afterward crossed by the Northern Turnpike. While they were destroying this place, Major Scott and his party overtook them. Five and a half mile.s farther, or sixteen miles from Skoi-yase, the detachment encamped for the night at a small Indian settlement, a mile and a half from the Cayuga Castle, called Gewawga, located on the site of Union Springs. After leaving Choharo, the path kept near the lake shore, along which were several houses and corn-fields that the detachment destroyed as it passed along.
Early in the morning of Wednesday, September 22d, the detachment reached Cayuga Castle. Thomas Grant describes this town as containing fifteen very large square log houses, and adds," I think the building superior to any I have yet seen." Two other towns were in the immediate neighborhood: one, a mile south from the Castle and called by our men Upper Cayuga, containing fourteen large houses, and the other, two miles north-east of the Castle, (Grant says.) called by our men Cayuga, sometimes East Cayuga, or Old Town. In the vicinity of the Castle, were one hundred and ten acres of corn; besides apples, peaches, potatoes, turnips, onions, pumpkins, squashes and other vegetables in abundance. Major Grant describes Cayuga as a large and commodious town consisting of about fifty houses, but he evidently includes the three towns mentioned by Thomas Grant ; he also adds that the troops found salt here, manufactured by the Indians from the salt springs near Choharo, some United States muskets and a few regimental coats. The Oneidas, who accompanied the detachment of Colonel Butler on their return to their own country and who had besought clemency for the Cayugas, were somewhat displeased with General Sullivan's answer to their petition, but, on searching the houses at Cayuga, some fresh scalps were discovered, which, being shown to them, convinced them of the justice of the course pursued by General Sullivan. This town, the Cayuga Castle, probably was on or near one called by the French Jesuits, Goi-o-gouen, at which the mission of St. Joseph's was established, and which General John S. Clark locates on the north side of Great Gully Brook. This corresponds with the distance (ten miles,) recorded by Benjamin Lodge, the Surveyor of the' expedition, who accompanied this detachment. On his map, Cayuga Castle is located on the north side of the stream, and Upper Cayuga on the south side of it.
The troops were employed until three o'clock P. M., of the next day, in destroying this place when they marched to Chonodote, four and a half miles from Cayuga Castle, and which Mr. Lodge notes as "remarkable for it8 peach trees." There were fifteen hundred of them, some apple trees, and a number of acres of corn. This town consisted of fourteen houses, chiefly old buildings, and stood on the site of the village of Aurora. Here the army encamped for the night. Early the next morning, September 24th, the work
of destruction commenced. As remorseless as a cannon shot, the axe levelled every tree though burdened with its loads of luscious fruit, and the freshly ripened corn was gathered only to be destroyed. At io o'clock A. M.,the torch was applied to the dwellings, and as the crackling flames lifted their fiery heads over this scene of havoc and destruction, the detachment resumed its march. It was an hour after dark before the next encampment was reached, which was sixteen and a half miles south of Chonodote, on a pleasant hill beside a fine stream of water.*
Early on Saturday morning, the 25th, the detachment resumed its march. After traveling seven miles, they reached the southern extremity of Cayuga lake; going five miles farther, they came to the smoking ruins of a town destroyed by a party under Colonel Dearborn, the day before, of which I shall speak presently. Having destroyed the corn which was overlooked by the party who burned the town, the troops encamped here for the night.
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* North of Lndlowville. This day they crossed two streams, the first of which Gao. Clam-k identifies as Mill creek, the second as near Lake Ridge in the town of Lansing.
REV. DAVID CRAFT.
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On the 26th and 27th, the route for most of the way was a thorough pathless wilderness, where the sun and the surveyor's compass were the only guides. While on the march this day, a man of the party died suddenly. On the 28th, the detachment rejoined the main army at Fort Reed, erected at Kanawaholla.
In his report General Sullivan sums up the results of this branch of the expedition as follows : " Colonel Butler destroyed, in the Cayuga county, five principal towns and a number of scattering houses, the whole making about one hundred in number, exceedingly large and well built. LIe also destroyed two hundred acres of excellent corn, with a number of orchards, one of which had one thousand five hundred fruit trees." The five towns destroyed were Skoi-yase, the three Cayugas and Chonodote.
"We left General Sullivan with the main army at Kanadesaga on the 20th. That day he crossed to the east side of the outlet and encamped. From this point on Tuesday morning, the 21st, Colonel Dearborn* with two hundred men was sent to lay waste the country on the xvest side of Cayuga lake. General Sullivan says: ."I detached Colonel Dearborn to the west side of Cayuga lake, to destroy all the settlements which might be found there, and to intercept the Cayugas if they should attempt to escape Colonel Butler."
The journal of Colonel Dearborn and that of Major James Norris of the same Regiment, Third New Hampshire, and the Seneca County Courier, are the principal sources of information.
At eight o'clock on the morning of the 21st, the detachment left the main army, and taking almost a direct easterly course, came to three wigwams in the woods, where were also several patches of corn, cucumbers, melons, peas, etc.; they also found near here fifteen horses. Advancing four miles farther, they reached the shore of Cayuga lake at a very pretty town consisting of ten houses, which,. with a considerable quantity of corn, was destroyed. A mile south of this point was another town called Skanayutenate; going a mile farther south, they found a third village, described by Norris as a new town, consisting of nine houses, and a mile beyond, they found a lar~,e house, all which they burned, and Dearborn encamped for the night about two miles south of the large house. Counting the three wigwans a village, as both Dearborn and Norris do, and the results of this day's work were the destruction of four towns and numerous cornfields, and a march estimated at seventeen miles. The relative situation of these three towns on the west side of the lake was very similar to that of the three Cayugas on the opposite side. The first little cluster of wigwams was located near the reservation line on the small stream that enters the Seneca river above Seneca Falls. in the town of Fayette. Skanayutenate, the central one of the three, was situated, on the bank of Canoga creek, the second, the one unnamed, being a mile north, and the one called Newtown on the Disinger farm, a mile south. This is a point hardly second in historical interest to Cayuga itself, and its destruction was a severe blow to the Cayuga nation. While it is not germane to my topic, to discuss questions of general history outside of this campaign, it may. be allowed me to say, that Canoga was the birth-place of Red Jacket, the great Iroquois orator.
After marching five miles the next day, the detachment came to the ruins of a town burned by the packhorse drivers, connected with Colonel Gansevoort's Regiment. Beatty, under date of September 6th, says: "This evening came up four or five packhorse-men, who lost themselves, and told us that they took the wrong path, and went on till near night when they came to a small Indian town on Cayuga lake, which the Indians had abandoned. They then found out their mistake and came to us as soon as possible, after burning the houses. They likewise got a very fine horse, and a great number of peaches and apples which they brought to camp." Dr. Campfield adds, they were Colonel Gansevoort's servants. This town, Dearborn calls Swah-ya-wa-nah, and adds " a half mile distant found a large field of corn and three houses. We gathered the coin out and burnt it in the houses." This town was built on the banks of a stream which passes through the farm of Mr. Edward Dean, in Romulus, opposite to Aurora.
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