"I feel it my duty to send a speech to the Governor of Pennsylvania at this time, and inform him the place where I was from; which was _Connewaugus_, on the Genessee river. "When I was a child, I played with the butterfly, the grasshopper and the frogs. As I grew up, I began to pay some attention and play with the Indian boys in the neighborhood, and they took notice of my skin being of a different color from theirs, and spoke about it. I inquired of my mother the cause, and she told me that my father was a resident of Albany. I still ate my victuals out of a bark dish--I grew up to be a young man, and married me a wife--but I had no kettle or gun. I then knew where my father lived and went to see him, and found he was a white man and spoke the English language."[I] [I] Journal House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, 1822-23. The period when CORNPLANTER and his family removed from Connewaugus and the Genessee country is unknown. Probably not until his native town was destroyed by General SULLIVAN, in his expedition against the Six Nations, in 1779. Of that expedition, CORNPLANTER speaks in his address to General WASHINGTON in 1790. From the strong and eloquent language used by him, and which I shall have occasion hereafter to cite, it is probable he was an eye witness of the desolation produced by SULLIVAN'S army. Of the early career of CORNPLANTER, we have but little information. It is generally understood that his first appearance as a warrior, was at the battle of the Monongahela, in 1755, where BRADDOCK was defeated, and that he fought on the side of the French in that bloody field.