ton on the Chenango river, in
present town of Chenango, near the present village of the same name.
The twenty-two miles travel mentioned, evidently includes the march up
the Chenango to this town, and from thence to the camp. Van Hovenberg
estimates the day's march of the army at 16 miles. Many writers
incorrectly locate this town at Binghamton.

[137] CHOCONUT, or _Chugnutt_, an important Indian town of fifty or
sixty houses, mostly on the south side of the Susquehanna at the mouth
of Big Choconut creek, on the site of the present village of Vestal,
in town of Vestal, Broome county. Burned Aug. 19, 1779, by Gen. Poor's
detachment which encamped on the north side of the river near present
Union where the two detachments united. Gen. Clinton's camp the same
night, was six miles distant up the river.

[138] OWAGEA, an Indian town of about twenty houses. Occupied in 1779,
located on Owego creek about a mile from the Susquehanna near the
present village of Owego in Tioga County. Gen. Poor's detachment
encamped Aug. 17th on the site of present village, where was a small
Indian Hamlet. Owagea was burned Aug. 19.

[139] MANCKATAWANGUM, or Red Bank, here called Fitzgerald's Farm,
appears to have been on the south side of the Susquehanna, in the town
of Nichols, nearly opposite the village of Barton. Major Norris'
Journal, in going up, says on the 16th the detachment "encamped near
the ruins of an old town called MACKTOWANUCK" (see p. 41); Lieut.
Jenkins' Journal; says "10 miles from Tioga at a place called
MANCKATAWANGUM or _Red Bank_," and mentions encamping at same point on
the return march. A table of distances in Canfield's Journal says
"from the mouth of the Tioga (Chemung) to Mackatowando 10 miles." This
would locate the Indian town at or near present Barton. On the Tioga
county map, Mohontowonga Farm appears on the south side of the river
opposite Barton, and an island in the river named Mohontowango.

Early in the spring of 1779, two men named Sawyer and Cowley were
captured near Harpersfield, by four Schoharie Indians, named Han
Yerry, Seth's Henry, Adam and Nicholas. One of the captives was an
Irishman, the other a Scotchman. They were refugees from Harpersfield,
who had sought safety in Schoharie at the beginning of the
difficulties. The prisoners could not speak Dutch, which the Indians
understood, nor could the Indians understand English. When captured,
they claimed by signs to be friends of the King, and were