"The Indians were under the command of Brandt, who was either killed or wounded in the action. They burnt Major Decker's house, barn and mill, James Van Vlock's house and barn, Daniel Vanoker's barn (here were two Indians killed from a little fort around the house, which was saved). Esquire Cuykindall's house and barn, Simon Westfall's house and barn, the church, Peter Cuykindall's house and barn; Martinus Decker's fort, house, barn and saw-mills, and Nehemiah Patterson's saw-mill; killed and scalped, Jeremiah Vanoker, Daniel Cole, Ephriam Ferguson and one Tavern, and took with them several prisoners, mostly children, with a great number of horses, cattle and valuable plunder. Some of the cattle we rescued and returned to the owners." A list of the names of the killed has been preserved, and is as follows: Killed in Minisink Fight. Col. Benjamin Tusten. Gabriel Wisner. Capt. Bezaliel Tyler. Stephen Mead. Capt. Benjamin Vail. Nathaniel Terwilliger. Capt. John Dimcan. Joshua Lockwood. Capt. Samuel Jones. Ephraim Ferguson. Capt. John Little. ____ Talmadge. Lieut. John Wood. John Carpenter. Adjt. Nathaniel Fitch. David Burney. Robert Townsend. Gamaliel Bailey. Samuel Knapp. Moses Thomas. James Knapp. Jonathan Haskell. Benjamin Bennett. Abram Williams. William Barker. Daniel Reed. Jacob Dunning. Jonathan Pierce. Joseph Norris. James Little. Gilbert S. Vail. Nathan Wade. Joel Decker. Simon Wait. Abram Shepherd. James Mosher. ____ Shepherd. Isaac Ward. Eleazer Owens. Baltus Niepos. Adam Embler. Samuel Little. Ensign Ephraim Hasten. Benjamin Dunning. Ensign Ephraim Middaugh. There is a tradition that Joseph Brandt secretly visited the Minisink some time before his second invasion, and was cared for by a Tory, and thus became well informed of the condition of the region. Brandt was supposed to be a half-breed, with a German father, but later he was believed to be a pure Mohawk Indian. He was educated at Dartmouth College, and at the commencement of the Revolution received a British appointment as Colonel of the Six Nations. He was a Free Mason, but neither this nor a good education tamed his savage nature. Dr. Wilson said of him: "He was more cunning than the fox and fiercer than the tiger." Detachments from Woodhull's, Allison's and Hathorn's Regiments were sent to guard the frontier, but Sullivan's expedition up the Susquehanna and to the Genesee Valley drew the attention of Brandt, and he and his Indians did not return. The jails at Goshen and Kingston were filled with prisoners, but the local Tories continued to be troublesome, and some of them joined the British Army, while others made predatory excursions from retreats in the lower Highlands, covered by the British works at Stony Point and Fort Lee, and became a terror to the inhabitants.