Butler

almost

withdrew after

his

from the valley

followers

massacre, he nevertheless

the

left immediately behind him those who had personal grievances to avenge and These were mainly fugitives mercenary rewards to secure.

from the Esopus clans at Oghkwaga, and tories, who, availing themselves of the withdrawal of Count Pulaski and his legion of cavalry from Minnisink, where they had been stationed for the protection of the frontier, made a descent, on the fourth of

May, 1779, upon the settlers killing six of the settlers

five

barns.

Colonel

at Fantinekil

in

western Ulster,

and burning four dwelling houses and

Cortlandt's

regiment,

then stationed

at

Wawarsing, went in pursuit of the authors of the mischief, but Scarcely had he turned back, before the town of Woodstock was attacked and several houses destroyed.

without success.

Reinforced by Brant in person, the war raged along the entire border.

In July, Fantinekil was again visited, and the widow

The story of Wyoming Has been told in all its details by Minor and Stone, and

others, and is repeated by Lossing in his Field Book. Notwithstanding the persistent efforts of the poet Campbell and that of the English historians to escape censure by blackening the name of Brant, the fact is pretty well established that he

was almost entirely innocent of the excesses which were committed. Nor is there better ground for associating with the transaction the

old

dispute of the

Lenapes. That question was satisfactorily The only by the treaty of 1768. question in dispute was that between the Connecticut company and the proprietaries of Pennsylvania, in which the Indians settled