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the Seneca chief Sangerachta, who are described by Butler as having 

 behaved on all occasions with great courage and determination. 



The victorious army destroyed forty Indian villages with their 

 adjacent orchards and cornfields but did not succeed in taking more 

 than a dozen prisoners, and failed to lay waste a considerable part of 

 the fertile valley of the Genesee, whither the Indians retreated. Brant 

 continued during these operations to watch their movements with great 

 vigilance but his sole success was the destruction of an isolated party of 

 thirty men under a Lieut. Boyd. 



On September 8th, Butler reported that the enemy had taken 

 possession of Canadasaga, the principal Seneca village the day before. 

 " Joseph Brant who stayed to reconnoitre says that to all appearances 

 they cannot be less than 3,000." 



Two days later he stated that Sangerachta had gone with Brant to 

 meet the chiefs at Genesee. " There is a very good understanding 

 between them and they concur with each other on every occasion." 



" Shortly after Lieut-Colonel Mason Bolton, the commandant at 

 Niagara, reported that the Indians are extremely dissatisfied that 

 troops have not been sent to Oswego or this [post] notwithstanding all 

 the efforts of Major Butler, Sangerachta and Joseph Brant to keep them 

 in line." 



In his next letter (September 17th) Bolton remarked that "Joseph 

 Brant who upon all occasions deserves everything that I can say in his 

 favour, has just arrived. Sangerachta has behaved extremely well. He 

 has great weight with the Six Nations. Joseph some time ago was not 

 on the best terms with him. They had their quarrels like other great 

 men." 



Early in October Brant again returned to Niagara from the Seneca 

 country and reported that the invaders had retired to Wyoming. By 

 this time. Sir John Johnson had arrived there with a reinforcement of 

 four hundred troops from Montreal, and after a consultation with 

 Colonel Bolton sailed for Oswego with the intention of attempting a 

 raid upon the Mohawk valley. Bolton stated that "Joseph with a 

 number of the Six Nations went by land to the Three Rivers, the place 

 of rendezvous, determined, I believe, to cut off the Oneida village and 

 attempt something more if opportunity offers, but as the season is so 

 far advanced I think it scarcely possible." 



