1816, for the purpose of receiving a good education, where it was said
that he was an industrious scholar, and made great proficiency in the
study of the different branches to which he attended. Having spent two
years at that Institution, he returned in the winter of 1818, and is now
at Buffalo; where I have understood that he contemplates commencing the
study of medicine, as a profession.

Thomas, at the time he was killed, was a few moons over fifty-two years
old, and John was forty-eight. As he was naturally good natured, and
possessed a friendly disposition, he would not have come to so untimely an
end, had it not been far his intemperance. He fell a victim to the use of
ardent spirits--a poison that will soon exterminate the Indian tribes in
this part of the country, and leave their names without a root or branch.
The thought is melancholy; but no arguments, no examples, however
persuasive or impressive, are sufficient to deter an Indian for an hour
from taking the potent draught, which he knows at the time will derange
his faculties, reduce him to a level with the beasts, or deprive him of
life!



CHAPTER XI.


Death of Hiokatoo.--Biography.--His Birth--Education.--Goes against the
Cherokees, &c.--Bloody Battle, &c.--His success and cruelties in the
French War.--Battle at Fort Freeland.--Capts. Dougherty and Boon
killed.--His Cruelties in the neighborhood of Cherry Valley, &c.--Indians
remove their general Encampment.--In 1782, Col. Crawford is sent to
destroy them, &c.--Is met by a Traitor,--Battle.--Crawford's Men