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Updated: June 17, 2025
It would be of no interest to a stranger, since one hour was much like another until we were come near to the Indian town of Oghkwaga, where Brant usually made his headquarters while bent on such cruel work as that of harrying the settlers who favored the rebellion against the king, and it is not necessary I should write down here the well-known fact that Thayendanega was in the pay of the British.
The messenger nodded gravely, and, after pausing until one might have counted ten, said: "Thayendanega asks why so many white soldiers are encamped near his village?" "I have come to see and talk with my brother, Captain Brant," General Herkimer replied, with the same stiff manner as that assumed by the messenger. "And do all these men want to talk with the chief, too?"
He ordered me to go home at once, providin' I could not find you, an' I would have done so this night but for the battle of the mornin'." "Why did that stop you?" I asked. "Surely you had no part in it?" "No; but the savages were so infuriated that I feared even Thayendanega himself would be unable to prevent the wretches from leadin' my father to the stake, therefore I remained on watch.
Thayendanega had apparently given no heed as to whether his movements were known, for never an effort had been made to cover the trail, and we followed it as readily as if it had been blazed.
He strode off in advance, with never a glance backward to see if I was following, and in silence we went on toward the danger-point at a swift pace, until the old man halted to say, in a whisper: "There should be sentinels nearabout, unless Thayendanega believes he has killed all the decent men in the Mohawk Valley; so have your wits about you, lad, for a mistake now will cost us dearly."
"They have come to bear me company; they are my followers, as Captain Brant has his." "And do they also call Thayendanega 'brother'?" "Ay, and they hope he is a brother to them."
The soldiers were astir at an early hour next morning; but before the column could be set in motion an Indian strode gravely into the encampment waving a bit of white cloth, and, on being questioned by the sentinels, announced himself as a messenger sent by Thayendanega with words to General Herkimer.
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