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In the summer of 1687 he fitted up a <reat expedition 
consisting of two thousand French and Indians, whose prime 
object was to punish and avense the Senecas. Denonville 
arrived at Irondequoit Bay early in July, and began great dest- 
‘ruction. Great devastation continued for a period of ten days 
after which Denonville withdrew to the Niagara River region. 
Indian towns weve destroyed, thes oft men, women and children 
who had been left in the deserted villages were cruelly butchered 
and erops were devasted. The expedition covered a large stretch 
of territory, and great havoe was wreught among the Indians in 
Northern Livingston county. Aside from large quantities of 
beans, Desonville estimated that the army destroyed about 
400 ,ccC minots of corn. 
During the following years until the Revolutionary 
war there were many attacks by the Iroquois upon the Freneh, 
and vice versa. “Missionaries were at all times among the Indians. 
Alt these circumstances resulted in the lands of Western New 
York becoming known more or less to Buropeans, but very little 
progress was made toward their settlement Lecause of the in- 
security of the times. 
During the Revolution, the Iroquois were for the most 
part, the allies of the British, und a source of danger to the 
colonists. Many an unprotected household on the frontier 
suffered severely from the attacks of these savage marauders. 
In 1779 after teing earnestly exhorted by the frontier colonists 
