Susquehanna rivers about a mile and a quarter above their junction at a point where the two streams were within a few hundred yards of each other. The center of the present village of Athens, Pa., is almost exactly at this point. Early in the spring Clinton with the First and Third New York regiments passed up the Mohawk to Canajoharie. From this point an expedition was sent out against the Onondagas. About fifty houses were burned and nearly thirty Indians were killed and a somewhat larger number taken prisoners. After this expedition Clinton passed from Canajoharie to the head of Otsego Lake. This was a laborious enterprise as, for a portion of the distance, roads had to be cut through an unbroken forest and there was not a good road any part of the distance.

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More than two hundred heavy batteaux had to be drawn across fiom Canajoharie, a distance of twenty miles, by oxen. Otseg"o Lake, the source of the Susquehanna, is about twelve hundred feet above tide water, nine miles long with an average width of a mile. The outlet is narrow with high banks. Here Clinton built a dam and raised the water of the lake several feet, sufficient to furnish water to float his boats when the time came for a forward movement. On the 9th of August ^Clinton's forces embarked and the dam was cut. The opening of the dam made very high water, flooding the flats down the river and frightening the Indians, who thoug'ht the Great Spirit was angry with them to cause the riv^er to be flooded in August without a rain. During his passage down the Susquehanna, Clinton destroyed Albout, a Scotch Tory settlement on the east side of the Susquehanna, about five miles above the present village of Unadilla ; Conihunto, an Indian town about fourteen miles below Unadilla, on the west side of the river ; Unadilla, at the junction of the Unadilla with the Susquehanna ; Onoquaga, an Indian town situated on both sides of the river about twenty miles below Unadilla ; Shaw'hiangto, a Tuscarora village near the present village of Windsor, in Broome county ; Ingaren, a Tuscarora hamlet where is now the village of Great Bend ; Otsiningo, sometimes called Zeringe, near the site of the present village of Chenango, on the Chenango river, four miles north of Binghamton ; Choconut, on the south side of the Susquehanna at the site of the present village of Vestal, in the town of Vestal, Broome County; Owegy or Owagea, on the Oweg-o Creek about a mile above its mouth ; and Mauckatawaugum, near Barton.