. Landmarks of Niagara County, New York; . t to meet the savagesand with better knowledge of what had already taken place, they tookgreater precautions, but the Indians had gone. The soldiers found theremains of their stripped and mutilated comrades, broken wagons,wounded teams, etc., at the bottom of the precipice. This was themost terrible and bloody deed ever enacted in this immediate little stream close by, that some years ago supplied water for a sawmill, is known as Bloody Run, deriving its name from the thousands of tourists have visited the locality where, fo
. Landmarks of Niagara County, New York; . t to meet the savagesand with better knowledge of what had already taken place, they tookgreater precautions, but the Indians had gone. The soldiers found theremains of their stripped and mutilated comrades, broken wagons,wounded teams, etc., at the bottom of the precipice. This was themost terrible and bloody deed ever enacted in this immediate little stream close by, that some years ago supplied water for a sawmill, is known as Bloody Run, deriving its name from the thousands of tourists have visited the locality where, for manyyears, a charge was made for going down the declivity on rude down the banks relics of this butchery were found by the pioneersettlers half a century later. To prevent further depredations reinforcements were sent on fromOswego. In November two soldiers were killed at Lewiston while cut-ting wood in sight of their quarters. General Amherst was in favor ofpunishing all the Senecas wherever found, but Johnson secured immu-. ISAAC H. BABCOCK. 33 nity for two small villages that had remained pacific. Later in the sea-son, when news came from the west that the Hurons and others whohad shared in the Pontiac war had offered to make peace, the Senecashastened to Johnson with similar proposals. Johnson advised the Lordsof Trade that the Senecas were undoubtedly sincere and advocated theexaction of the lands along the Niagara from the fort to Schlosser,with a guarantee from the Indians of its peaceable possession , when the Senecas to the number of four hundred metJohnson in April, 1764, they signed articles conveying to the Englishgovernment all the lands on both sides of the river, two miles wide,from Lake Ontario to Fort Schlosser. At this meeting Johnsonadopted measures to secure a general conference of all the Indian na-tions at Niagara. On the 8th of July he arrived here from Oswegowith General Bradstreet and twelve hundred white men and six hun
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