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Rome, Oneida County, New York a town of 11,000 pop., on Mohawk River and Erie Canal, at the junction of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad with the New York Central Railroad, 14 miles from Utica. An active business place.
Utica, Oneida County, New York a city of 30,000 pop., on Mohawk River, Erie Canal, and New York Central Railroad, 95 miles from Albany. Extensively engaged in various manufactures, and the center of a rich agricultural district.
Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York a city of 12,000 pop., on Mohawk River and Erie Canal, 16 miles from Albany. Extensively engaged in various manufactures and the center of a large trade. The seat of Union College.
his words of farewell. Immediately on arriving at the Mohawk castles, he was received as a prisoner, and, against the voice of the Oct. 18. other nations, was condemned by the grand council of the Mohawks as an enchanter, who had blighted Chap. XX.} their harvest. Timid by nature, yet tranquil from zeal, he approached the cabin where the death-festival was kept, and, as he entered, received the death blow. His head was hung upon the palisades of the village, his body thrown into the Mohawk River. This was the signal for war. The Iroquois renewed their invasions of the Huron country. In vain did the French seek to engage New England as an 1648. ally in the contest. The Huron nation was doomed; the ancient clans of the Wyandots were to be exterminated or scattered; and the missionaries on the Matchedash shared the dangers of the tribes with whom they dwelt. Each sedentary mission was a special point of at- Relation 1648, 8-17. traction to the invader, and each, therefore,
tions. From Boston d'estaing, in the name of his king, had summoned the Canadians to throw off British rule; Lafayette, in December, exhorted his children, the savages of Canada, to look upon the English as their enemies. Thus encouraged, congress, without consulting a single military man, formed a plan for the emancipation of Canada, in co-operation with an army from France. One American detachment from Pittsburgh was to capture Detroit; another from Wyoming, Niagara; a third from the Mohawk river to seize Oswego; a fourth from New England, by way of the St. Francis, to enter Montreal; a fifth, to guard the approaches from Quebec: while to France was assigned the office of reducing Quebec and Halifax. Lafayette would willingly have used his influence at Versailles in favor of the enterprise: but Washington showed how far the part reserved for the United States went beyond their Chap. VII.} 1778. resources; and, in deference to his advice, the speculative scheme was laid aside.