[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] censure by blackening the name of Brant, by the contestants. The truth of Wyom-the fact is pretty well established that he ing can only be written by an analysis was almost entirely innocent of the ex-of the actors in the massacre and their cesses which were committed. Nor is association with the proprietaries of Penn-there better ground for associating with sylvania. the transaction the old dispute of the 278 THE INDIAN TRIBES of Isaac Bevier and her two sons, and Michael Socks and his father, mother, two brothers, wife and two children, were massacred, and the house which they occupied given to the flames. At the house of Jesse Bevier the assailants were suc cessfully resisted, although the building was set on fire and its inmates exposed to a terrible death. Alarmed, it is said, by a faithful dog, settlers two miles distant came to the relief of their friends. The tories fled without completing their work, only to reappear at Napanoch, where they burned the only house standing on the site of the present village of Ellenville. From thence they moved to Minnisink, where, on the night of July