from the short acquaintance which I had had with the negroes, that they
were kind and friendly, I concluded, at their request, to take up my
residence with them for a while in their cabin, till I should be able to
provide a hut for myself. I lived more comfortable than I expected to
through the winter, and the next season made a shelter for myself.

The negroes continued on my flats two or three years after this, and then
left them for a place that they expected would suit them much better. But
as that land became my own in a few years, by virtue of a deed from the
Chiefs of the Six Nations, I have lived there from that to the present
time.

My flats were cleared before I saw them; and it was the opinion of the
oldest Indians that were at Genishau, at the time that I first went there,
that all the flats on the Genesee river were improved before any of the
Indian tribes ever saw them. I well remember that soon after I went to
Little Beard's Town, the banks of Fall-Brook were washed off, which left a
large number of human bones uncovered. The Indians then said that those
were not the bones of Indians, because they had never heard of any of
their dead being buried there; but that they were the bones of a race of
men who a great many moons before, cleared that land and lived on the
flats.

The next summer after Sullivan's campaign, our Indians, highly incensed at
the whites for the treatment they had received, and the sufferings which
they had consequently endured, determined to obtain some redress by
destroying their frontier settlements. Corn Planter, otherwise called John
O'Bail, led the Indians, and an officer by the name of Johnston commanded
the British in the expedition. The force was large, and so strongly bent
upon revenge and vengeance, that seemingly nothing could avert its march,