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promised to secure us in the possession of our lands. Do this, 

 and so long as the lands shall remain, that beloved name will 

 live in the heart of every Seneca. 



Oct. 10 Col. Guy and Sir John Johnson left Sodus bay for 

 Oswego with a considerable force, accompanied by Brant and 

 his Indians. The Canadian Indians refused to go against the 

 Oneidas or Fort Stanwix, and all went into winter quarters, 

 Colonel Johnson returning to Niagara, where 2628 Indians 

 remained in October, and about 1000 white refugees. There 

 were 5036 there Sep. 21, to be fed, but parties went out on raids. 

 Johnson said these Indians '' will no longer wear tinsel lace, and 

 are become good judges of gold and silver." 



A party attacked German Flats in February 1780, and in March 

 another did some damage at Palatine. In April Brant surprised 

 and burned Harpersfield, but treated the prisoners well. Colonel 

 Harper gave him false information about Schoharie, which 

 deterred him from raiding that region, but part of his men entered 

 Ulster county, taking some prisoners, who afterward killed their 

 captors and escaped. 



In May Sir John Johnson entered the Mohawk valley with 500 

 men, few of whom were Indians, coming by way of Lake Cham- 

 plain and reaching Johnstown jVIay 21. There his force divided, 

 one party going to Tribes Hill and Cayadutta creek, doing much 1 

 damage. Butler and Brant were also busy on the south side of 

 the river. In June all the Canaseraga Tuscaroras went over to • 

 the enemy, and " two families of the Oneidas, with all the Onon- 

 dagas who had joined us since the capture of their village." 

 Other Oneidas followed, but most remained. Col. Guy Johnson i 

 said that 500 Oneidas came that year, ready to fight the Ameri- 

 cans. " The last party that arrived delivered up to the Superin- 

 tendent a commission which, he says, ' the Rebels had issued I 

 with a view to form the Oneidas into a corps. . . they also 

 delivered up to me the Rebel flag.' " 



Schonendoh and Peter were then prisoners at Niagara, but a 1 

 family who returned in December said that Brant. Schonendoh 1 

 and Peter persuaded them to go. This would seem to be Sken- 



