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From: Howard Ray Lawrence <>
Subject: [MIXED-BLOODS] Thayendanegea.
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 17:17:50 -0700

Subject: [BRANT] Warner and Beers History of Brant County 1883

Balance of Page 111 and Part of Page 112
INDIAN HISTORY

The British forces were finally met by a body of American troops under
General Van Rensselaer, and a battle was fought at Flock's Field, in
which engagement the Americans were victorious and the invading allies
were obliged to make a rapid retreat from the valley with General
Rensselaer pushing after them. At Fort Hunter the plundered inhabitants
crowded around him with their tales of loss or grief. Among them was a
woman whose husband and other relatives were missing. She was in an
agony of grief over the loss of her infant, which had been snatched from
the cradle. Early next a young Indian warrior came bounding into the
room like a stag; he bore an infant in his arms, and with it a letter
addressed "to the Commanding Officer of the Rebel Army." The letter was
substantially as follows: "Sir,- I send by one of my runners the child
which he will deliver, that you may know that whatever others may do, I
do not make war upon women and children." The letter was from
Thayendanegea, and the baby was none other than that of the disconsolate
mother who has been mentioned. In this engagement Brant was wounded in
the heel, but not seriously enough to prevent his escape. Concerning
this little circumstance several absurd anecdotes have been narrated by
careless or misinformed writers. One of these stories was to the effect
that Brant despatched an American prisoner who was in conversation with
Col. Johnson at the time, and that his heel felt easier for the deed.

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