of his detachment. firing the houses,

He was consequently unable to restrain the attack

This was made by one party with all possible vigor whilst others were busy barns etca.

The greater The 500 horses, lost by the enemy in this affair, were not exactly captured. part were killed or wounded, and M. de Belletre brought with him but a very small number which was a great resource to him to support his detachment on his return. 2.

3d

.

Had he all those horses and all the provisions at his disposal he could not absolutely have

it was prudent for him to hasten his retreat, or because the had been utterly impossible, botli on account of the difficulty of the roads and rivers to be passed and the impossibility of feeding the horses.

profited

by them,

either because

transportation of the provisions

;

PAPERS RELATING TO THE ©NEIDA COUNTRY AND MOHAWK VALLEY.

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A SUMMARY NARRATIVE OF THE CONDUCT OF THE ONEIDA INDIANS (LIVING AT THE UPPER TOWN) PREVIOUS TO THE ATTACK OF THE FRENCH AND THEIR INDIANS UPON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE GERMAN FLATS IN THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK, IN NOVEMBER, 1757.'

A few days after this Massacre and desolation had been perpetrated, Sir William Johnson despatched Geo. Croghan, Esq ; Deputy-agent, with

M Montour, the Indian interpreter, to the German r

Flats, where he understood several of the Oneida and Tuscarora Indians were assembled, iu order to call upon those Indians to

Explain themselves why they had not given more timely notice to the