Chapter XVIII

Indian siege of Fort Laurens--Successful stratagems--Flight of the
pack-horses--The fort abandoned--Projected enterprise from Detroit--Gov.
Hamilton captured at St. Vincent by Col. Clarke--Projects of
Brant--Uneasiness in the West of New-York--Deliberations of the Oneidas
and Onondagas--Brant's projects defeated--Treachery of the
Onondagas--Colonel Van Schaick marches to lay waste their
towns--Instructions of General Clinton--Passage of Wood Creek and
Oneida Lake--Advance upon the Indian towns--Their destruction--Return
of the expedition to Fort Schuyler--Mission of the Oneidas to Fort
Schuyler in behalf of the Onondagas--Speech of Good Peter--Reply of
Colonel Van Schaick--Irruption of Tories and Indians into the lower
Mohawk country--Stone Arabia--Defence of his house by Captain Richer--The
Indians in Schoharie--General Clinton traverses the Mohawk
valley--McClellan's expedition to Oswegatchie--Unsuccessful--Irruption
of the Onondagas into Cobleskill--Defeat of the Americans--The settlement
destroyed--Murders in the neighborhood of Fort Pitt--Irruptions of
Tories into Warwasing--Invasion of Minisink--Battle near the
Delaware--Massacre of the Orange County militia--Battle with the
Shawanese.
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