Annals of Tyron CountyJ. & J. Harper, 1831 |
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afterward Albany American arms army arrived attack battle British Burgoyne Butler called Campbell Canada Canajoharrie Capt Cherry Valley Clinton colony command Committee continental Continental Congress council creek death Decamped defence destroy detached dians district encamped enemy English fire force Fort Plain Fort Schuyler French friends frontier Gansevoort garrison George Clinton German Flatts ground Guy Johnson Harper Herkimer honour immediately Indians and tories inhabitants Johnstown Joseph Brant killed lake land Leger letter liberty Lieut M'Kean massacre ment miles militia Mohawk river morning New-York night o'clock officers Oneida Oquago ordered Oswego party of Indians passed persons prisoners Province Provincial Congress received regiment resolution retreat returned savages scalps Schenectady Schoharrie Schuyler Seneca sent settlement Sir John Johnson Sir William Johnson Six Nations soldiers soon Susquehanna taken Tioga tion tomahawk took town tribe troops Tryon County village warriors Willet woods wounded Wyoming
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189 ページ - Providence, which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have given bounds to a new empire.
111 ページ - Gainst Brandt himself I went to battle forth : Accursed Brandt ! he left of all my tribe Nor man, nor child, nor thing of living birth...
112 ページ - Johnson and family, who frequently visited at his house, and also with Col. John Butler, likewise a judge. The family were not active either for or against the country ; they wished to remain neutral, so far as they could, in such turbulent times ; they always performed military duty, when called out to defend the country. Col. John Butler, in a conversation relative to them, remarked — ' I would have gone miles on my hands and knees to have saved that family, and why my son did not do it, God...
17 ページ - TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
76 ページ - To the eyes and ears of the temperate part of the public, and to the hearts of suffering thousands in the provinces, be the melancholy appeal, whether the present unnatural rebellion has not been made a foundation for the completest system of tyranny that ever God, in his displeasure, suffered for a time to be exercised over a froward and stubborn generation.
57 ページ - He did more: he sent an aide-de-camp to conduct me to Albany, in order, as he expressed it, to procure me better quarters than a stranger might be able to find. This gentleman conducted me to a very elegant house, and, to my great surprise, presented me to Mrs. Schuyler and her family; and in this general's house I remained during my whole stay at Albany, with a table of more than twenty covers for me and my friends, and every other possible demonstration of hospitality.
70 ページ - Buffalo; they have also got great and sharp Claws. They have driven us out of our Country for taking part in your Quarrel. We expect the great King will give us another Country, that our Children may live after us, and be his Friends and Children, as we are. Say this for us to the great King. To enforce it, we give this Belt. A great white Belt with blue Tassels.
51 ページ - I shall always manifest more humanity, than to promote the destruction of the innocent inhabitants of a Colony to which I have been always warmly attached, a declaration that must appear perfectly suitable to the character of a man of honour and principle, who can.
44 ページ - ... but his gallant spirit sternly refused to obey the call. In a short time after, the British made a general and most desperate attack on both posts, which was received by the Americans with undismayed courage and resistance. Officers and men, militia and continentals, all behaved alike brave. An incessant fire was kept up till dusk, when our troops were overpowered by numbers, who forced the lines and redoubts at both posts. Many of the Americans fought their way out...
15 ページ - A skirmish took place with a body of American troops ; the action was warm, and Brandt was shot by a musket ball in his heel, but the Americans, in the end were defeated, and an officer, with sixty men, were taken prisoners.