and after ‘a long list of Indian atrocities in the border 
settlements of New York and Pennsylvania, including the bloody 
affairs at Wyoming valley, Cherry valley, and Minnisink, congress 
determined to punish the Indians. The expedition was fitted 
and the command given to General Sullivan. The objects were 
the destruction and total devastation of the Indians and their 
settlements, as well as those of their adherents und associates, 
and the capture of as many prisoners of either sex as possible. 
The expedition was directed especially against the country of 
the Senecas in Centraa and Western New York where the tories 
and their allies made a place of rendevous and from «hich 
issued forth many a frana of steathily presling Savazes end 
and no less blood thirsty tories to visit death upon the 
defenseless forms of the colonists on the frontier. 
During July the army assembled at Wyoming, Pennsylvania 
and on the thirty first of the month set oul its long mareh. 
Sullivan, with his thirty five hundred men marched up the 
Susquehanna valley, and at length he arrived at Tioga Point. 
Several days were spent in the Chemung valley, during which 
several skirmishes were reught, and no inconsiderable damage 
done to the Indians. On August twenty sixth the army movec 
upon Newtown, (Blirira). A body of Indians and tories under 
Butler of the British army was here encountered. The ensuing 
battle lasted for two hours, and , finally was won by the 
American army. Sullivan encamped for a few days, destroying 
the town and crops. 
