about,

for

we

assure

you,

brethren."

(Letter to Justices of Kingston signed by chiefs of Tuscarora and Esopus

301,419, 424. To what extent these Indians were compromised with Brant is not known, but it is quite certain that a large number of the Esopus Indians became his obedient followers. The Indians were stationed on Chatterton's hill, under Colonel Haslet, and were in the heaviest of the engagement on the z8th of October. Book, n, 822.

Lossings Field

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

although Brant doubtless drew recruits from all the tribes. The Oneidas and Tuscaroras consistently refused to join him ; the Onondagas were not at first warmly enlisted in the move ment ; the Mohawks were divided. 1 So far as recognized

was concerned, however, it soon became an es fact, that the Mohawks, Cayugas, Onondagas, and

tribal action

tablished

Senecas, had attached themselves

to the

king.

Of the entire

confederacy not more than eight hundred warriors took the field, under the British, at any time ; but this number, added to those from the Canada tribes,

and those whose hostilities in

the west had never been suspended, constituted no inconsidera

Could they have been regularly could their services have been time, any they would have constituted an

ble portion of their forces. enrolled and disciplined, or at

depended upon effective body of

men

;

but their modes of warfare would not

admit of discipline, and their habits of living would not permit

any considerable numbers, except at certain That they were a scourge to the frontier