. Collections - State Historical Society of Wisconsin . tands. Choconut (Chucknut, Chugnutt) was an Iroquois town situated on thesouthern bank of the Susquehanna, where Vestal, Broome County, now forces destroyed this Indian village on Aug. 19, 1779. * Carleton Island lies at the foot of Lake Ontario. It was called by the FrenchIsle aux Chcvreuils, variously translated Deer or Buck Island. In the monthof August, 1778, three companies of the Forty-seventh British Infantry built apost on this island, and renamed it for their popular general. Carleton Islandwas a naval and milita
. Collections - State Historical Society of Wisconsin . tands. Choconut (Chucknut, Chugnutt) was an Iroquois town situated on thesouthern bank of the Susquehanna, where Vestal, Broome County, now forces destroyed this Indian village on Aug. 19, 1779. * Carleton Island lies at the foot of Lake Ontario. It was called by the FrenchIsle aux Chcvreuils, variously translated Deer or Buck Island. In the monthof August, 1778, three companies of the Forty-seventh British Infantry built apost on this island, and renamed it for their popular general. Carleton Islandwas a naval and military supply station for the posts of the upper the close of the Revolution a fort was erected at Kingston, Ontario,when the garrison from Carleton Island was transferred thither. A small guardwas thereafter maintained at the island post, which in July, 1812 was capturedby a patriot party from New York. Carleton Island is now part of JelTersonCounty in that state. Until recent years ruins of the old British post might beseen upon this !
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