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

had no part, except as they were influenced

The truth of Wyomby the contestants. ing can only be written by an analysis of the actors in the massacre and their association with the proprietaries of Pennsylvania.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

of Isaac Bevier and her two sons, and Michael Socks and his

mother, two brothers, wife and two children, were massacred, and the house which they occupied given to the flames. At the house of Jesse Bevier the assailants were suc father,

cessfully resisted, although the building was set on fire and its inmates exposed to a terrible death. Alarmed, it is said, by a faithful dog, settlers two miles distant came to the relief of their

friends.

The tories fled without completing their work, only

Napanoch, where they burned the only house From on the site of the present village of Ellenville. standing

to reappear at

thence they moved to Minnisink, where, on the night of July Qth, Brant, with sixty of his Indians, and twenty-seven tories the disguised as savages, stole upon the little town, and, before people were aroused from their slumbers, fired several dwellings.