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Updated: June 8, 2025
I had to visit Colonel Herkimer at his home below Little Falls, and talk with him about the disagreeable fact that his brother, Hon-Yost Herkimer, had deserted the militia command given him by the Whigs and fled to Canada.
Colonel Henry Frey, who owned the upper Canajoharie mills, took sides with the Tories, and had fiercely quarrelled with his brother John, who was one of the Whig Committee. There was an equally marked division in the Herkimer family, where one brother, Hon-Yost Herkimer, and his nephew, outraged the others by espousing the Tory cause. So instances might be multiplied.
It has been as much as flung in my face to-day that my brother Hon-Yost is a colonel with Johnson up yonder." The little man pointed westward with his hand to where the last red lights of day were paling over the black line of trees. "He is with them," he said, bitterly, "and I am blamed for it.
Old Sammons could not restrain a snort of rage when the name of Hon-Yost Herkimer was mentioned in this list of men who wore now the traitor's "Royal Green" uniform, and carried commissions from King George to fight against their own blood. "You saw no Sammons in that damned snake's nest, I'll be bound!" he shouted fiercely at Enoch. "Nor any Fonda, either," said Major Jelles, as firmly.
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