Excerpt from Onondaga's Soldiers of the Revolution: Official Records

Contrawise, the story of those early settlers of Onondaga, who put aside the accountrements of war to face the rigors of a new country, is of the heroic model. Historically, it is interesting to all, genealogically, the field is more limited, but still, in Cent°al New York, so wide? As to attract every family branch which dreafiife from those tirst comers.

Colonial records give no enviable place to the Onondaga Indians. In that strug gle. \vith the angry warnings of Lex ington and Bunker Hill, the colonists sought their assist.a.nce, -at least to em: ploy them for a neutral part, - ~hut their alliance was already formed with the Tories who had made their villages places of refuge. Of these early white sittlers of Onondaga, who came first for safety and then with Brant to' urge the Indians to battle, history's page is a blank. Under their chiefs the Onon di gas assisted materially in the defeats of Harmer and St. Clair and were in the retreat when the tide was turned for independence by \vayne. 'l'lre vengeance of 1779, when Colonel Van Schaich led the expedition to destroy the Onondaga villages, is ahistory of which much has been written to show how the col onists repaid the Onondagas for their barlmrities. T)f the importantm oi the. Crushing of the Onondagas one resolu tion of Congress indexes the Spirit: of tee time. By the act of the 10th of May, it was Resolved. That-the tlmnks ot Congress he presented to Col.

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