upon the Oneidas and Tuscaroras ; burned their castle, church, and village, and drove the offenders down upon the fell

Fort Niagara was erected by the French in 1725, and was for many years The the seat of the French missionaries. English captured it in 1759, when it was rebuilt and During the regarrisoned. revolution, it was held by the British, and became the head-quarters of the Indians

and tories. It was surrendered to the United States in 1794. a The authenticity of this document

The portion quoted, has been disputed. is a statement of facts, if not Appendix by the Indians themselves.

however,

Stone's Life of Brant.

OF HUDSON'S RIVER. white settlements for protection. 1

In May, in detached parties

they renewed their attacks upon the borders of Ulster county, plundered the houses of Thomas and Johannes Jansen, in the

town of Shawangunk well

as

a

;

killed

a

young woman from

Miss

Mack anfl

her father, as

New York then residing with

them, in one of the mountain gorges, and subsequently reached the Hudson in an attack upon the settlement at Saugerties,

where they made prisoners of Captain Jeremiah Snyder and his son Isaac, who were taken to Fort Niagara and from thence to Montreal.

The

convenient

instruments of the

tories,

they

followed their footsteps wherever they were bidden.

In the meantime, Sir John Johnson, at the head of a band of refugees and Indians, five hundred in number, stole through the woods from Crown point and appeared at Johnson Hall. His