Francis Whiting Halsey

“ When Sullivan finally departed from the country, the Indians returned to witness the desolate state of their ancestral homes - blackened ruins, with fields of corn and gardens overturned. Mary Jemison says there was not enough left to keep a child. Homeless now, in their own land, the Indians marched to Niagara,where, around the fort, the English built huts for them to pass the winter in. Owing to the severe cold, hunting became impossible that season; so that they were forced to live on salted food, which produced scurvy, and hundreds of them died. ”

“ At Kanadesaga, besides apple and peach trees, there were mulberry-trees, and the growing vegetables were onions, peas, beans, squashes, potatoes, turnips, cabbages, cucumbers, watermelons, carrots, and parsnips. ”