Owning a large tract of valuable wild land upon the banks of the mohawk river he commenced gradual improvements upon it and in 1803 removed there.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson
Sullivan in his expedition against the Indians and with a chosen band of kindred spirits surprised and took the lower mohawk castle and a large number of prisoners.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson
It was important commercially because the mohawk and Hudson rivers formed a direct avenue for the fur-trade from the region of the great lakes to the finest harbour on all the Atlantic coast.
"The War of Independence"
John Fiske