The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians: With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland AmbuscadeHardenbergh, John Leonard
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The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians: With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade
Hardenbergh, John Leonard
Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives
[145] EAST CAYUGA, or _Old Town_, contained thirteen houses located in
the south-east corner of the town of Springport, as indicated on the
map, from three to four miles from the lake. A site in the south-west
corner of Fleming was a site of this town at about this date.
[146] CHONODOTE, so named on Capt. Lodge's map, an Indian town of
fourteen houses, on the site of present Aurora in Cayuga County;
according to George Grant's journal it contained fifteen hundred peach
trees.
[147] On the hill north of Ludlowville.
[148] The first of these falls was probably on Mill Creek, two and a
half miles south-west of Northville; the second near Lake Ridge in the
town of Lansing.
[149] COREORGONEL was burned by the detachment under Colonel Dearborn.
See his account September 24, and note 161.
[150] Goi-o-gouen, of the Jesuit Relations, and site of the Mission of
St. Joseph, called also Cayuga Castle, and the same described as three
towns by Thomas Grant under the names of Cayuga Castle, fifteen
houses; upper Cayuga, containing fourteen houses; and Cayuga,
containing thirteen houses. The houses were very much scattered, and
on both sides of Great Gully brook on the south line of the town of
Springport in Cayuga County. Greenhalgh, an English trader, passed
through the Cayuga country in 1677, and found them there occupying
"three towns about a mile distant from each other; they are not
stockaded. They do consist in all of about one hundred houses and
intend next Spring to build all their houses together and stockade
them. They have abundance of corn, and lie within two or three miles
of lake Tichero."
[151] These salt springs were located on the opposite side of the
river from Choharo, see note 142. Luke Swetland, a prisoner in 1778,
made salt at these springs, which he says was of excellent quality.
[152] CHONODOTE. See note 146.
[153] COREORGONEL, two miles south of Ithaca, destroyed by the
detachment under Col. Dearborn on the 24th. See note 161.
[154] KANAWLOHALLA, on the site of present Elmira. See note 77.
MARCH OF COLONEL DEARBORN ALONG THE WEST SIDE OF CAYUGA LAKE.
On the return march, after crossing the outlet of Seneca Lake east of
Kanadaseaga, the army encamped on the high ground at Rose Hill, near
the east shore of the lake. Here Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dearborn
commanding the Third New Hampshire regiment, was detached with two
hundred men and ordered to march along the west shore of Cayuga lake
to co-operate with Colonel Butler in devastating the country of the
Cayugas.
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