f the estate of Alexander Ross of Pittsburgh, 1784,
appears in the record of effects a promissory note made by George
Croghan, with this appended remark: "Dead, and no Property."

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 16: _The Old New York Frontier_, 32.]

[Footnote 17: _The Old New York Frontier_, 61.]

[Footnote 18: _Four Great Rivers_, Halsey, lvii.]

[Footnote 19: _Four Great Rivers_, 35.]

[Footnote 20: Henry M. Pohlman, D.D., _Hartwick Seminary Memorial
Volume_, 1867, p. 21.]

[Footnote 21: Pohlman, 23.]

[Footnote 22: James Pitcher, D.D., _Centennial Address_, 1897, p. 7.]

[Footnote 23: _Hartwick Sem. Mem._, 27.]

[Footnote 24: _History of Cooperstown_, Livermore, 11.]

[Footnote 25: "The Book of Mormon," _Scribner's Magazine_, August,
1880.]

[Footnote 26: _The Wilderness Trail_, Chas. A. Hanna, II, 59, 60.]

[Footnote 27: _The Wilderness Trail_, II, 30.]

[Footnote 28: _The Wilderness Trail_, II, 8.]

[Footnote 29: do., II, 20.]

[Footnote 30: Published in _Four Great Rivers_.]

[Footnote 31: This current is now sluggish, owing to the dam of the
water works lower down the river.]

[Footnote 32: The largest Indian village in the Susquehanna Valley,
about 50 miles in an air line from Otsego, twice as far by water,
situated on the river at a point where the present village of Windsor
stands, some 14 miles easterly from Binghamton.]

[Footnote 33: _The Wilderness Trail_, II, 84.]

[Footnote 34: _The Old New York Frontier_, 125.]

[Footnote 35: _The Old New York Frontier_, 320.]

CHAPTER III

A BYPATH OF THE REVOLUTION

The settlers on the New York frontier were many of them Scotch-Irish,
nursing an inherited hostility to England. The greater part of the
Iroquois Indians, more particularly the Mohawks, had a sentimental
regard for the covenant which, for a century, had made the red men loyal
to the British king. Here was a native antagonism between settlers and
Indians which during the Revolution partly contributed to the warfare of
torch and scalping knife that raged in the Susquehanna region.

Brant, the Mohawk chief, although himself a full-blooded Indian, known
among his own people as Thayendanegea, had become, through long
association with Sir William Johnson and his friends, a king's man and
churchman. With the doctrines of the Church of England which he had
embraced on becoming a communicant, he adopted also the contempt for
dissenters which was so common among churchmen. Once, on t