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Fort Brewerton June 23 and encamping at Three River Point. 

 They were at Oswego Falls June 24 to 2^, and left Oswego July 

 I. The French tried to surprise Oswego after they left, but were 

 repulsed. The English had 3100 troops and Indians, who landed 

 at Niagara July 8. General Prideaux was killed on the 20th and 

 Johnson took command. The fort surrendered July 25, and the 

 army returned to Oswego. About one third were Indians. About 

 the same time General Amherst took Ticonderoga and soon after 

 Crown Point; while Quebec surrendered Sep. 18. 



Some unimportant conferences were held at Pittsburg that year, 

 in which Iroquois chiefs took part. There was also " a great 

 Meeting of Indians at Assensing, on the Cayuga Branch of the 

 Sasquehannah," in the interests of peace. This was a Munsey 

 town in New York, recently settled there. This council was 

 " preparatory to a General Council, which the Western Indians 

 proposed to hold in the month of April over the Ohio." 



In the summer of 1760 Amherst collected his forces at Oswego 

 and descended to Montreal, which soon surrendered. The only 

 opposition was at Fort Levis, a little below the present city of 

 Ogdensburg, occupied by a small force under M. de Pouchot. 

 He was called Sategariouaen, In the jMidst of Good Affairs. The 

 Indians left Oswegatchie the year before, settling on the Isle 

 Picquet. Many now went to Montreal and elsewhere, and the 

 rest refused to aid the French. There were places of interest in 

 the vicinity. Pointe aux Iroquoise, locally called Point Rocka- 

 way, was a place where that people always stopped in going up 

 or down. Toniata, the place of the eel fishery, now Grenadier 

 island, was a noted resort from the earliest times. St Regis, on 

 the St Lawrence and intersected by the boundary line, was a 

 mission settlement and is still a reservation. It is worthy of note 

 that in this last engagement of this great war, two vessels engaged 

 were called after Iroquois nations. One was the Onondaga, 

 called the Seneca by Pouchot, and the ^lohawk, called Oneida 

 by him. 



A list has been given of 1330 Indians who promised to go with 

 Johnson at this time, Among these were 284 Cayugas, 57 Tusca- 



