. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. towns and fields there, andjoin the expedition from the east in a com-bined attack upon Fort Niagara. The expedition from the east moved in twodivisions. One under Gen. Sullivan left Wyo-ming, ascended the Susquehanna, and arrivedat Tioga, August nth, 1779. The other, underGen. James Clinton, marched from Canajo-harie on the Mohawk, passed over OtsegoLake, descended the Susquehanna, and joinedGen. Sullivan, August 22d. A part of Clintonstorce, under Col. Van Schaick had previouslydestroyed the fields and towns of the Onon-dagas. The two
. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. towns and fields there, andjoin the expedition from the east in a com-bined attack upon Fort Niagara. The expedition from the east moved in twodivisions. One under Gen. Sullivan left Wyo-ming, ascended the Susquehanna, and arrivedat Tioga, August nth, 1779. The other, underGen. James Clinton, marched from Canajo-harie on the Mohawk, passed over OtsegoLake, descended the Susquehanna, and joinedGen. Sullivan, August 22d. A part of Clintonstorce, under Col. Van Schaick had previouslydestroyed the fields and towns of the Onon-dagas. The two divisions, five thousand men,under the command of Sullivan, moved fromTioga up the Chemung river. They defeatedthe British and Indians at Elmira on August29, in the battle of Newton, advanced to thehead of Seneca Lake and thence along itsshores, destroying the Indian towns on theway, including the large Indian village ofKanadaseagea at its outlet. They then pro-ceeded to the Genesee river and destroyed thelarge villages and extensive cornfields BRODHBADS ROOT : BRODHEADS EXPEDITION ?7 The original design of advancing on FortNiagara having been abandoned, Sullivan com-menced his return march. On his way hecaused the towns and fields of the Cayugas,which were situated on the eastern and south-western shores of Cayuga Lake, to be de-stroyed. He arrived at Tioga on September30, and at Easton, Pennsylvania, on OctoberT5, having destroyed forty Indian towns andone hundred sixty thousand bushels of Indiancorn, besides a large amount of other prop-erty. As a less full history has been written of theexpedition moving from the south, it is thedesign of this article to supply some accountof it. When the Iroquois first became knownto Europeans, their villages and huntinggrounds were confined to Central New fierce wars which they subsequentlywaged, and by which kindred nations weresuccessively vanquished, secured to them anextensive territory to the west and south, in-clud
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