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

houses of the tories were spared, but no sooner had the enemy retired

than the exasperated whigs set them on fire, and all common fate. The valley of the Mohawk was

shared the

next left

visited.

At Caghnawaga the buildings which had been

standing at the

previous visitation, as well as those which

rebuilt, were destroyed, and every dwelling on both Murder sides of the river, as far up as Fort Plain, was burned.

had been

and rapine attested alike the hatred of Johnson for neighbors and the vengeance of his dusky allies.

his former

But the marauders were not permitted to again escape with Governor George Clinton, having received

out molestation.

information from two Oneidas, of their movements, promptly marched to the relief of the district. strong body of Oneida warriors, led by their chief, Louis Atyataronghta, who had been

commissioned a colonel by congress, joined him on his way. Near Fort Plain the opposing forces met Brant and his Indians, ;

a thicket of shrub