, HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK IROQUOIS 2I9 



and Jean Pierron went to the Mohawks that year ; Father Jacques 

 Bruyas accompanied them and proceeded to Oneida. Father 

 Julien Garnier soon joined him, but went on to Onondaga, where 

 Father Pierre Milet came to him the next year. At the same 

 time Father Etienne Carheil resumed the work among the Cay- 

 ugas on Cayuga lake. These had now some villages north of 

 Lake Ontario, which were safe from the Andastes. The enmity 

 between them and that people was great, and that year four 

 Andastes women were burned at Oneida alone. 



Arent Van Curler (Corlaer) was drowned in 1667, while on 

 his way to Canada. This occurred in Corlaer's bay, Lake Cham- 

 plain, now called the Bay of Perou. There was a great rock 

 there, beneath which the Indians thought one of their divinities 

 dwelt, and they made offerings in passing. He ridiculed this, 

 and the Indians thought his death a retribution for his sarcasm. 

 He was a great favorite with the Mohawks, and they called the 

 governors of New York after him. 



In 1668 the Wappingers joined the Mohawks against the Mahi- 

 cans, 300 of whom attacked the Mohawk town of Gandaouague' 

 Aug. 18, 1669, but were repulsed with loss. This was the eastern 

 castle, on the north side of the river. The invaders were led by 

 Chickataubutt, who was killed in the attack. They were pur- 

 sued and another battle took place next day, at a place mentioned 

 in a grant of July 3, 1672, as " KINAQUARIONES, Where 

 ■ he Last Battel luas between the Mohoakx and the North [river] 

 'Indians/' Of this Gen. J. S. Clark said : 



Kinaquariones is the steep rocky hill on the north side of the 

 Viohawk river just above Hoffman's Ferry, nine English (equal 

 o three Dutch) miles west of Schenectady. It was the western 

 )0unds of the original Schenectady patent, and now forms the 

 outheast corner of the county of Montgomery. The ancient 

 -boriginal name is still preserved in the contracted form of 

 ^owereoune. The palisaded castle Gandaouague', at the date of 

 his assault, was on the north side of the Mohawk, on the west 

 ank of Cayadutta creek, on a high plateau known locally as the 

 and Flats. . . This village was for a time the residence of 

 'egakwita, the Iroquois saint, and of the great Kryn, one of the 

 ,iost valiant among the many famous Mohawk warriors. 



