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

colonists. This village took its name from that of the ancient Mohawk village called

Gaudaouague 5 by the French, Onengioure, and by the Dutch, Kaghnewas in j_this village that It wage. Father Jogues was so badly treated durIts ing eighteen months of captivity.

is now covered by the village of Fonda, Montgomery county. The Mohawks who originally occupied it were proselyted by the Jesuits and induced to remove to Canada, where they were

site

established at a mission called by themselves, in remembrance of their ancient village,

Caghnawaga. (Brodheadyii, 129,

At the time of its Ante, p. 97). 299. destruction it was occupied principally by

German families from the Palatinate.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

Corn

planter and

five

hundred of their warriors, entered the

Schoharie valley, and although not successful in reducing the block-houses which had been erected, nevertheless spread destruc tion along thefr pathway. Not a house, barn, or grain-stack known to belong to a whig, was left standing ; one hundred thousand bushels of grain were destroyed in a single day. The