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.

With no means of flight to

defense, the inhabitants sought safety in the mountains, leaving all their worldly goods a spoil

to the invaders.

Their small stockade fort, a mill, and twelve

houses and barns were burned ; several persons were killed and some taken prisoners. Orchards and farms were laid waste,

were driven away, and booty of every kind carried to Grassy brook on the Delaware, where Brant had his head

cattle

quarters.

Alarmed by fugitives, Lieutenant Colonel Tusten, of Goshen, issued orders to the officers of his regiment to meet him at Minnisink the next day, with as many men as they could muster.

In response to

this call one

gathered in council with

hundred and forty-nine men were

him the following morning.

Tusten

regarded the force as too small to attempt the pursuit of the invaders, but he was overruled, and the line of march taken up.

On the twenty-first, Colonel Hathorn, of Warwick, joined the pursuers with a small additional force, and assumed the command. the twenty-second, Hathorn pushed on to the high hills