containing fourteen houses, located on the site of present Aurora, in
Cayuga County. This town contained 1500 peach trees. Destroyed Sept.
24th by the detachment under Col. William Butler. See note 146.
TOWNS DESTROYED BY LIEUT. COL. DEARBORN.
35. A small hamlet of three houses, on the Shankwiller farm, in town
of Fayette, Seneca County, four miles from Cayuga lake. Destroyed by
Colonel Dearborn Sept. 21. See note 155.
36. A small town of ten buildings on the west shore of Cayuga lake,
one mile north of Canoga Creek. Destroyed by Col. Dearborn's
detachment Sept. 21, 1779. See note 156.
37. SKANNAYUTENATE, an Indian village of ten houses, located on the
south bank of Canoga creek, on the west shore of Cayuga lake, a half
mile north-east of Canoga village in Seneca County. Destroyed by
Lieut. Col. Dearborn Sept. 21, 1779. See note 157.
38. NEWTOWN, an Indian village of nine houses, located one mile
south-east of village of Canoga, on the west shore of Cayuga lake, a
mile south of Skannayutenate. Destroyed Sept. 21, 1779 by Lieut. Col.
Dearborn. See note 158.
39. SWAHYAWANA, an Indian town located on the west shore of Cayuga
lake, on the farm of Edward R. Dean, in the north-east corner of the
town of Romulus in Seneca County. Destroyed Sept. 22, 1779, by Lieut.
Col. Henry Dearborn. See note 159.
40. COREORGONEL, an important Indian town of twenty-five houses,
located on the west side of Cayuga inlet, about two miles south of
Ithaca, and three miles from the head of Cayuga lake. It appears as
Todevighrono, the name of the tribe on the Gay Johnson Map of 1771.
Destroyed by the detachment under Lieut. Col. Dearborn Sept. 24, 1779.
See note 161.
LIST OF JOURNALS.
The following Journals are those of officers actively engaged in
Sullivan's campaign:
I.--ANONYMOUS. From June 18 to Sept. 13, 1779. Printed in Hill's New
Hampshire Patriot, at Portsmouth, September 16, 1843. An imperfect
copy of Norris' Journal, with several omissions, and many important
errors.
II.--BARTON, WILLIAM, Lieutenant in the Jersey Brigade. From June 8 to
October 9, 1779. Published in the Transactions of the New Jersey
Historical Society, Vol. II, 1846-7, p. 22.
III.--BEATTY, ERKURIES, Lieutenant in the Fourth Pennsylvania
Regiment. From June 11 to October 22, 1779, in Sullivan's Campaign.
Also from April 6 to April 29 of same year in the campaign against the
Onondagas. The original manuscript in the Archives of the New York
Historical Society. Has never been published.
IV.--BLAKE, THOMAS, Lieutenant in Second New Hampshire Regiment. From
May 19 to October 15, 1779. Published in Ridder's History of the First
New Hampshire Regiment.
V.--CAMPFIELD, JABEZ, Surgeon in Spencer's Fifth New Jersey Regiment.
From May 23 to October 2, 1779. Published in the Proceedings of the
New Jersey Historical Society 1873, pp. 115 to 136, from the original
presented to the Society by Edmund D. Halsey.
VI.--DEARBORN, HENRY, Lieutenant Colonel commanding the Third New
Hampshire Regiment. From June 16 to October 15, 1779; transcribed from
the original by his son, General Henry A.S. Dearborn. This copy in
charge of Colonel C.G. Thornton, of Madison, Wisconsin, executor of
the Dearborn estate. The original manuscript of Henry Dearborn is in
the hands of John S. Fogg, Esq., of Boston, Mass.
VII.--ELMER, EBENEZER, Surgeon in Second New Jersey Regiment. From
June 18 to August 14, 1779. The original manuscript in the Archives of
the New Jersey Historical Society. Extracts were published in the
Transactions of the Society in 1846-7.
VIII.--FELLOWS, MOSES, Sergeant in the Third New Hampshire Regiment.
From July 22 to September 20, 1779. The original in possession of A.
Tiffany Norton, Esq., of Lima, N.Y.
IX.--GOOKIN, DANIEL, Ensign in Second New Hampshire Regiment. From May
4 to September 5, 1779. Published in the New England Hist. and Gen'l
Register for January, 1862.
X.--GRANT, GEORGE, Sergeant Major in the Third New Jersey Regiment.
From May 17 to November 3, 1779. Published in Hazard's Register (Pa.)
Vol. 14, pp. 72-76.
XI.--GRANT, THOMAS, appears from the Journal to have been one of the
surveying party under Captain Lodge, who accompanied the army from
Easton and with chain and compass, surveyed the entire route to the
Genesee river. From July 31 to September 25, 1779. Published in the
Historical Magazine for August and September, 1862.
XII.--HARDENBERGH, JOHN L., Lieutenant in Colonel Van Cortlandt's
Second New York Regiment. From May 1 to October 23, 1779. The original
manuscript in possession of the Hardenbergh family in Auburn.
Published by the Cayuga County Historical Society, 1879.
XIII.--HUBLEY, ADAM, Colonel of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment.
From July 31 to October 7, 1779. Published in Miner's History of
Wyoming. Appendix, 1845. The original contained several illustrations,
and maps of encampments, not in the published copy.
XIV.--JENKINS, JOHN, Lieutenant and guide in the expedition. From June
5, 1778, to March 17, 1781. The original manuscript in the hands of
his grandson, Hon. Steuben Jenkins, of Wyoming, Pa. It has never been
published.
XV.--LIVERMORE, DANIEL, Captain in the Third New Hampshire Regiment.
From May 17 to December 7, 1779. Published in the New Hampshire
Historical Collections, Vol. VI, pp. 308-335.
XVI.--MACHIN, THOMAS, Captain in Col. John Lamb's Second Regiment
(N.Y.) Artillery. From April 19 to 23, 1779, in Colonel Van Schaick's
expedition against the Onondagas. Published in the Magazine of
American History, November, 1879. Communicated by F.H. Roof.
XVII.--NUKERCK, CHARLES, Lieutenant and Captain in Colonel Van
Cortlandt's Second New York Regiment. From May 1, 1779, to December
11, 1780. Captain (afterward Colonel) Nukerck was born in Hurley,
Ulster County, New York. In 1776 he was serving as Second Lieutenant
in Colonel Ritzema's 3d New York Regiment, organized to garrison the
forts southward of Crown Point. Under the call of September 16, 1776,
he entered the Second New York Regiment _to serve during the war_, and
continued with that regiment as Lieutenant and Captain until the
consolidation of the five New York regiments into two in December,
1780, when he was assigned to the class of deranged officers, and
continued in service to the close of the war. He afterward settled at
Palatine Church, in the Mohawk Valley, where he died greatly respected
in November, 1822.
This Journal has had a somewhat interesting history. A portion
of it appeared in 1831 in Campbell's Annals of Tryon County, as
"extracts from the manuscript Journal of an officer," but
without giving the author's name. Extracts have also appeared
from time to time in the writings of the late Thomas Maxwell of
Elmira, as the Journal of Colonel Gansevoort. In Colonel
Stone's Life of Brant, 1838, Introduction p. xxiii, he says
"the author has likewise been favored with the manuscript diary
of the venerable Captain Theodosius Fowler of this city, who
was an active officer during the whole campaign. In addition to
the valuable memoranda contained in this diary, Capt. Fowler
has preserved a drawing of the Order of March * * * and a plan
of the _great battle fought at Newtown_, both of which drawings
have been engraved, and will be found in the Appendix." In the
body of the work he incorporates the text as found in
Campbell's Annals, including several interpolations from
Seaver's Life of Mary Jemison, which appear in the Annals _as
quoted_, but in Colonel Stone's work as _part of the original
Journal_. At page 18, Vol. II. appears the "Order of March" and
"Order of Battle," the latter having no reference whatever to
the battle of Newtown, it being nothing more than the general
order of battle prescribed at the beginning of the campaign.
After the death of Colonel Stone, the original manuscript fell
into the hands of that distinguished scholar, Dr. Lyman C.
Draper, Secretary of Wisconsin Historical Society, who
purchased it at the sale in a bound volume of manuscripts. In
June, 1879, he placed it in my hands for examination and
directed my attention to the fact, of its unquestionable
identity with the many fragments ascribed to Captain Fowler and
others. The Journal is substantially a history of the movements
of the Second regiment from the date of the first entry to the
time of the consolidation in 1780, when it closes. It contains
abundant evidence to warrant the conclusion that it must have
been written by an officer of that regiment. This appears
effectually to dispose of the claims of the supposed authorship
of Captain Fowler, as he was made Captain of the First New York
June 21, 1778, and continued in service with that regiment
until the consolidation 1780, when he was assigned to the new
New York Second, and continued in that position to the close of
the war. It is highly probable that Captain Fowler was on duty
with his regiment, which remained to guard the Mohawk Valley
during Sullivan's campaign, and consequently could not have
participated in the westward march, and if the author of a
Journal it certainly cannot be the one in question, which
beyond any doubt was written by an officer actively engaged in
the main expedition. A careful examination of the manuscript
disclosed the fact that unmistakably it is the hand writing of
Captain Nukerck, and presumably his Journal. On being advised
of this fact Dr. Draper addressed a note to Mrs. Miller, of
Englewood, N.J., a granddaughter of Captain Nukerck, who
answered "that she remembered distinctly, that her father
loaned to Mr. Campbell the Diary of her grandfather relating to
Sullivan's Campaign, and that afterward it was loaned to an
agent of Colonel Stone, who failed to return it." The
manuscript is in an excellent state of preservation, every word
from beginning to end being plain and distinct, especially the
proper names. It contains several maps indicating the line of
march and encampments, and at the end a single leaf is missing,
probably the order of march and order of battle, mentioned by
Colonel Stone.
XVIII.--NORRIS, JAMES, Captain in the Third New Hampshire Regiment.
From June 18 to October 25, 1779. Original manuscript in the Archives
of the Buffalo Historical Society, N.Y. Published in July, 1879, Vol.
I, No. 7, of the Publications of that Society, by Bigelow Brothers,
Buffalo, N.Y.
XIX.--ROGERS, WILLIAM, D.D., Chaplain in Hand's Brigade. From June 15
to August 29, 1779. Published with notes and Biography, No. 7 of the
Rhode Island Historical Tracts by Sidney S. Rider, Providence, R.I.,
1879.
XX.--ROGERS, WILLIAM, Quartermaster Sergeant in Malcom's N.Y. Regiment
in 1777, but in 1779 appears to have belonged to the Second New York.
From April 5 to September 14, 1779, contains names of places, dates,
and distances. The original manuscript in the hands of B.L. Rogers,
Newark, N.J.
XXI.--SHUTE, SAMUEL MOORE, Lieutenant in Second New Jersey Regiment.
From May 29 to November 9, 1779. The original manuscript in possession
of William Shute, of Doylestown, Pa.
XXII.--VAN HOVENBERG, RUDOLPH, Lieutenant in Colonel Du Bois' Fifth
New York Regiment. From June 16, 1779, to November 24, 1780. He
accompanied General Clinton down the Susquehanna. Has never been
published.
XXIII.--WEBB, NATHANIEL, an officer in the Second New York Regiment.
His son, Dr. Ezekiel Webb, had the original in September, 1855, at
which time a part was published in the Elmira Daily Republican.
[The following Journals were once in existence, but diligent inquiry
has failed to bring them to light:]
XXIV.--DEAN, JUDGE JAMES, the well known interpreter, and first Judge
of Herkimer County, N.Y.
XXV.--PIERCE, WILLIAM, Captain in Colonel Harrison's Regiment of
artillery, First A.D.C. to General Sullivan.
XXVI.--HOOPS, ADAM, Major, Third A.D.C. to General Sullivan. "The
facts concerning Van Campen and Boyd are taken from a part of a copy
of _my journal_ which had been copied from that of Major William
Pierce."--Letter Sept. 18, 1841, p. 180 Sullivan's Campaign.
XXVII.--PRINCE, KIMBALL, Sergeant Major in the Artillery. His diary
was in possession of his son Frederick Prince as late as 1822, but was
then stolen from a trunk during the ravages of the yellow fever in New
York City.
XXVIII.--NEWMAN ---- Referred to in Miner's History of Wyoming.
Supposed to have been destroyed by fire in the office of the Record of
the Times at Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 9, 1869.
[The following narratives have been written by parties actively
engaged in the campaign. Some are valuable, others are untrustworthy,
and well calculated to mislead:]
XXIX.--DAVIS, NATHAN. Private in the First New Hampshire Regiment.
Published in the Historical Magazine, April, 1868, p. 198.
XXX.--GANO, REV. JOHN, Chaplain in Clinton's Brigade. Published in the
Historical Magazine, November, 1861, p. 330.
XXXI.--SALMON, JOHN. Published in Seaver's Life of Mary Jemison.
XXXII.--VAN CAMPEN, MOSES. Appears in a memorial to Congress for a
pension.
XXXIII.--VAN CORTLANDT, PHILIP, Colonel commanding Second New York
Regiment. Autobiography written in 1825. Published in full in
Magazine of American History, May, 1878.
XXXIV.--MAXWELL, Major. Published in Vol. VII of the Historical
Collections of the Essex Institute, p. 97.
XXXV.--LODGE, CAPT. BENJAMIN was in charge of a party that accompanied
the army from Easton, and with compass and chain surveyed the entire
route to the Genesee river. On the return march, commencing at
Kanadaseaga, the party accompanied Colonel Butler and made a like
survey along the east side of Cayuga Lake, connecting with the main
line near present Horseheads. But one section of the map has been
found, and that was among the papers of Captain Machin, an artillery
officer. The original is now in the hands of J.R. Symms, Esq., of Fort
Plain, N.Y. Several parties have photographic copies. This section
extends north of Tioga Point and west as far as Kanadaseaga.
In addition to the preceding, is the correspondence and instructions
of General Washington; General Sullivan's Official Reports; many
valuable letters from General James Clinton; and undoubtedly many
journals will be added to those already known, now that the attention
of the public has been directed to the revolutionary period, and
especially to the Campaign of 1779.
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