And whether the fleet, moccasined warriors went westward over the Sacandaga trail to the big bend of the Hudson and so on to the Iroquois strongholds, or w^hether they came to the " Great Carrying Place," at what is now Fort Edward, through Lake Champlain and Wood Creek, or chose the trip through Lake St. Sacrament past the site of the future Glens Falls, down to Albany, or the west, all must cross this stream, which thus became as familiar to the Adirondack and Iroquois Confederacies, as the

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alphabet to us of to-day. This knowledge so gained was made ample use of in later times in many a bloody ambush, surprise or savage foray. After the defeat of Dieskau in 1755, and the building of Fort William Henry at Lake George and Fort Edward at the " Great Carrying Place/' the " Half-Way Brook " became a point of strategic importance, and as a halting place and rendezvous for the passing troops, and the convoys of supplies between the two forts, it was noted throughout the northern colonies, as long as the French and Indian war lasted. It was variously denominated by the military authorities during that time. On an old manuscript map without date in the New York State Library, it is noted as " Sdhoone Creek," while the Earl of Louden's map in 1757 has it marked as " Fork's Creek." ^ Rogers, the famious scout and ranger, called it " Bloody Brook." In Col. James Montresor's Journals, in 1757, it is styled " Half- Way Run." On the Robert Harpur map, in the Secretary of State's office at Albany, it is called " Scoune Creek,"^ while Knox's Military Journal designated it as " Seven Mile Creek," because it was seven miles from the head of the lake.