Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine . ing the Indians, who wereliving in well constructed houses, surrounded byfields of grain, orchards, gardens and meadows, withschools and churches. But Brant and his Indian allieswere making it a headquarters from which to raid thepatriots. Washington replied to Clinton and askedthe routes to this Indian town. These were furnishedhim. Clinton suggested three: One up the Delawarefrom the present Port Jervis ; one from Rochester inUlster county over the mountains and the third by theway of Schoharie and the Susquehanna. The last wasselected
Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine . ing the Indians, who wereliving in well constructed houses, surrounded byfields of grain, orchards, gardens and meadows, withschools and churches. But Brant and his Indian allieswere making it a headquarters from which to raid thepatriots. Washington replied to Clinton and askedthe routes to this Indian town. These were furnishedhim. Clinton suggested three: One up the Delawarefrom the present Port Jervis ; one from Rochester inUlster county over the mountains and the third by theway of Schoharie and the Susquehanna. The last wasselected and Colonel William Butler, who was stationedin Schoharie, was directed to the doomed Indian succeeded in utterly destroying it and the civiliza-tion that the Reverend Gideon Hawley had spent somany years in building up. It was a sad ending toefforts to benefit the red men, and these red men ofHawleys converts had not been in any manner en-gaged in the raids of Brant. He had used their town,their resources and their situation to their The Story ofJane Strope BOUT half a mile north of the oldstone church of Katsbaan in the townof Saugerties during the middle of thecentury before the one which justclosed lived a man by the name ofSebastian Strope. Just where hishouse stood can not be determined now but it wasnear the present residence of Garfield the year 1770 he removed to the town of Cats-kill and in 1773 to Pennsylvania, settling in Wysockton,Bedford county, taking with him his wife and in May, 1778, his whole family and three familiesof his neighbors were captured by the Indians whilethey were at breakfast. During the preceding evening a friendly Indiansought the shelter of the house of Strope and remainedthere all night. He told the father that he hadincurred the enmity of the Indians by his frequentvisits to the fort at Wyoming and that they wouldsoon attack his house. He added that formidablepreparations were making for a desc
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