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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  took 
  refuge 
  at 
  Onondaga 
  or 
  among 
  the 
  Senecas, 
  where 
  she. 
  was 
  

   influential. 
  Colonel 
  Claus 
  heard 
  that 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  decreed 
  

   her 
  satisfaction 
  by 
  ordering 
  hostilities 
  on 
  those 
  Oneidas 
  who 
  had 
  

   driven 
  her 
  away. 
  

  

  Bands 
  from 
  Oquaga 
  now 
  invaded 
  the 
  Delaware 
  and 
  Scho- 
  

   harie 
  settlements, 
  and 
  the 
  Schoharie 
  people 
  complained 
  of 
  neg- 
  

   lect. 
  The 
  Susquehanna 
  was 
  deserted, 
  except 
  that 
  Harpersfield 
  

   \vas 
  a 
  Tory 
  rendezvous 
  and 
  Unadilla 
  full 
  of 
  the 
  worst 
  people 
  

   of 
  the 
  frontier. 
  The 
  year 
  ended 
  with 
  an 
  eloquent 
  appeal 
  made 
  

   by 
  Congress 
  to 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations, 
  exhorting 
  them 
  to 
  peace 
  and 
  re- 
  

   minding 
  them 
  of 
  the 
  consequences 
  of 
  war. 
  It 
  had 
  no 
  effect, 
  for 
  

   no 
  presents 
  appealed 
  to 
  those 
  disposed 
  to 
  be 
  hostile. 
  

  

  Chapter 
  24 
  

  

  Council 
  at 
  Johnstown. 
  Schoharie 
  valley 
  invaded. 
  Wyoming 
  massacre. 
  Sen- 
  

   ecas 
  in 
  Philadelphia. 
  Queen 
  Esther's 
  town 
  destroyed. 
  Brant's 
  depreda- 
  

   tions. 
  Iroquois 
  towns 
  burned 
  on 
  the 
  Unadilla 
  and 
  Susquehanna. 
  Cherry 
  

   Valley 
  destroyed. 
  Onondaga 
  towns 
  burned. 
  Indians 
  burn 
  towns 
  in 
  New 
  

   York. 
  Sullivan's 
  and 
  Brodhead's 
  campaigns 
  against 
  the 
  Cayugas 
  and 
  Sen- 
  

   ecas. 
  Raid 
  in 
  Mohawk 
  valley. 
  Oneidas 
  and 
  Tuscaroras 
  join 
  the 
  English. 
  

   Schoharie 
  valley 
  ravaged. 
  "Wawarsing 
  burned. 
  Walter 
  N. 
  Butler 
  defeated 
  

   and 
  killed. 
  Expedition 
  against 
  Oswego. 
  Number 
  of 
  Indians 
  in 
  the 
  Eng- 
  

   lish 
  service. 
  

  

  Another 
  council 
  met 
  at 
  Johnstown 
  Mar. 
  9, 
  1778, 
  with 
  700 
  

   Indians 
  present. 
  Few 
  Cayugas 
  and 
  no 
  Senecas 
  were 
  there. 
  

   The 
  latter 
  wanted 
  revenge 
  and 
  were 
  surprised 
  they 
  were 
  called 
  

   at 
  all. 
  All 
  but 
  the 
  Oneidas 
  and 
  Tuscaroras 
  were 
  accused 
  of 
  

   treachery, 
  and 
  these 
  warned 
  the 
  Americans 
  not 
  to 
  trust 
  the 
  Onon- 
  

   dagas. 
  but 
  said 
  they 
  would 
  aid 
  them, 
  themselves. 
  An 
  Onon- 
  

   daga 
  chief 
  truly 
  said 
  the 
  sachems 
  were 
  all 
  for 
  peace, 
  but, 
  like 
  

   the 
  whites, 
  could 
  not 
  always 
  restrain 
  the 
  young 
  men. 
  La 
  

   Favette 
  was 
  there, 
  and 
  procured 
  forts 
  for 
  Schoharie 
  and 
  Cherry 
  

   Vallev. 
  The 
  Iroquois 
  gave 
  him 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Kayewla 
  at 
  this 
  

   time. 
  

  

  In 
  March 
  1778 
  Colonel 
  Johnson 
  explained 
  some 
  matters 
  to 
  

   Lord 
  Germaine. 
  The 
  cruelty 
  of 
  the 
  Indians 
  was 
  misrepresented, 
  

   and 
  the 
  colonists 
  tried 
  to 
  secure 
  their 
  aid 
  in 
  1775. 
  The 
  toma- 
  

   hawk, 
  so 
  often 
  talked 
  of, 
  was 
  seldom 
  used 
  except 
  for 
  smoking 
  or 
  

  

  