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John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

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600 Indians and Regulars, did much mischief, in the Time of the American War; they burnt the Country for about 40 Miles up and down the River, and many of the Inhabitants lost their Lives, amongst which was the parents, and other Connections of our Present Landlady, which has tended to embitter her Mind against the Natives to this Day. Thence up the River to Jacob Spraker’s, who keeps a ferry over the Mohawk, where we lodged: He has a gracious House