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acts ascribed to her are not in harmony with her character. The 

 next year's attack on Wyoming by a large force was repulsed, 

 but Brant shared in neither of these. 



A Seneca delegation was in Philadelphia at the time of the 

 Wyoming invasion, but is said to have left without notice and 

 refused to return. This would not be inferred from a letter of 

 James Deane to Philip Schuyler, dated at Fort Stanwix, Oct. 

 10, 1778: 



As the Seneca Chief, called the Great Tree, who was the sum- 

 mer past with General Washington, returned thro' Oneida, he 

 gave our Friends there the most solemn assurances that upon his 

 Arrival in his own Country, he would exert his utmost Influence 

 to dispose his tribe to peace and Friendship with the United 

 States, and that should his Attempts prove unsuccessful, he w^ould 

 immediately leave his Nation and join the Oneidas with his 

 Friends & Adherents. 



Hearing nothing for a long time, the Oneidas sent to know 

 the result. He had tried hard but been unsuccessful. His people 

 became excited over rumors of invasion and flew to arms. Then 

 he sided with them. A small band of Onondagas had joined 

 the hostile warriors, and all would meet on the Chemung. When 

 it was found that the Senecas took part at Wyoming, an army 

 was sent against the hostile Indians. It marched toward the 

 Sandusky towns, but stopped at Tuscarawa and built Fort Lau- 

 rens. Col. Thomas Hartley reported operations on the northern 

 line of Pennsylvania in September, having reached Tioga Sep. 

 26, with 200 men : 



We burnt Town, Hester's Palace or Town, & all the settle- 

 ments on this side. . . Mr Carberry with the Horse only, 

 was close on Butler, he was in possession of the Town of Shaw- 

 nee, 3 Miles up the Cayuga Branch, but as we did not advance, 

 he returned. . . Had we had 500 Regular Troops, and 150 

 Light Troops, with one or two Pieces of Artillery, we probably 

 might have destroyed Chemung, which is now the recepticle of 

 all villainous Indians & Tories from the dififerent Tribes and 

 states. 



Brant destroyed Andrus-town, southeast of German Mats, July 

 18, and was follow^ed as far as Little Lakes, where a Tory settle- 



