Cahaniaga, or Gandaougue, by the Dutch

called Kaghnewage, and more modernly known as Caghnawaga ; 2. Gandagaro, or Kanagaro 3. Canajorha, or Canajoharie, and 4. Tionondogue or Tionnontoguen. The first contained ;

twenty-four houses ; the second, sixteen ; the third, sixteen, and the fourth thirty. 1 Tionondogue was the capital of the tribe. destroyed by the French in 1667, and rebuilt about one mile further west. It was again destroyed by the French in It was

1693, but does not appear to have been rebuilt, as soon after " upper Mohawk Canajoharie is spoken of as the

that time castle." 2

It

was at the latter that Hendrick and his brother The house occu

Abraham resided, as well as Joseph Brant.

pied by the former, and also by the latter, was situated near what is now known as u Indian castle church," in Danube, Herkimer county. Caghnawaga was the scene of early conflict

between the Mohawks and the Mahlcans ; it was destroyed by the French in 1693, an ^ subsequently by the Americans. It was known as the " lower Mohawk and the castle," occupied of the present village of Fonda, Montgomery county. Gandagaro passed out of existence with the second French in

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In 1690, a vasion, or at least is lost to the records after 1693. new castle was erected at the mouth of Schoharie creek and

Tiononderoge, after the name of the ancient capital of the tribe, but was more generally known as " the castle of