[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 2 This village took its name from that remove to Canada, where they were of the ancient Mohawk village called established at a mission called by them-Gaudaouague 5 by the French, On-selves, in remembrance of their ancient engioure, and by the Dutch, Kaghne-village, Caghnawaga. (Brodheadyii, 129, wage. It was in j_this village that 299. Ante, p. 97). At the time of its Father Jogues was so badly treated dur-destruction it was occupied principally by ing eighteen months of captivity. Its German families from the Palatinate. 36 284 THE INDIAN TRIBES Corn planter and five hundred of their warriors, entered the Schoharie valley, and although not successful in reducing the block-houses which had been erected, nevertheless spread destruc tion along thefr pathway. Not a house, barn, or grain-stack known to belong to a whig, was left standing; one hundred thousand bushels of grain were destroyed in a single day. The houses of the tories were spared, but no sooner had the enemy retired than the exasperated whigs set them on fire, and all shared the common fate. The valley of the Mohawk was next visited. At Caghnawaga the buildings which had been left standing at the previous visitation, as well as those which