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

purpose was to remove the treasure which he had buried on the occasion of his first flight, and to punish some of his old neigh In both he was successful.

bors.

Two barrels of silver coin,

the fruits of his father's honest traffic with the Indians, rewarded

him ;

attendants lighted up the surrounding neighborhood with blazing dwellings, and murdered the defenseless people. his

The village of Caghnawaga 2 was given to the flames, and along the Mohawk valley for several miles every building, not owned by a loyalist, was burned,

the cattle killed, and all the

horses that could be found taken away.

With many prisoners

and much booty, Johnson made good his

retreat.

During the autumn more formidable operations were under Sir John Johnson, with three companies of refugees, taken. one company of German Yagers, two hundred of Butler's Rangers, and one company of British Regulars, with Brant and The fugitives collected together near Schenectady, where they remained until after the war, in active alliance with the