History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 174
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] alarmed at the havoc in their ranks and fled; a brisk fire was kept up for some time by the tories, until Butler, who was watching the fight from behind a tree, exposed his head and fell under a quick ball from an Oneida, who knew him and who was watching his motions; his troops fled in confusion; the Oneida bounded across the stream that separated the contestants, and while Butler, yet living, cried for quarter, finished the work 286 THE INDIAN TRIBES which he had commenced, tore from his head the reeking trophy which he sought, and bore it as a banner in the onward charge of his comrades. So perished Walter N. Butler, the most heartless of all the tories who engaged in the border wars; so closed the attacks upon the frontier settlements of New York.