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 90 HISTORY OF and surprise and capture their victims^ and thereby to restore the faltering confidence of the settlers along the frontiers, it was determined to march in two divisions, and unite in the midst of the Indian territory at Tioga Point. General Sullivan, who commanded the southern division, marched from the Hudson through Warwarsing, in Ulster County, crossing the Delaware, and following it down to Easton, and from thence, by a tedious route across the mountains, to Wyoming, then a desolate and deserted place. From Wyo- ming they conveyed their artillery and stores up the Susque- hanna in 150 batteaux to Tioga Point, where they disembarked their baggage, and awaited the arrival of the division under Clinton, which did not come up with them until nearly half a month afterwards. G-en. James Clinton, with the 1st and 3rd New York regi- ments, passed up the Mohawk to Canajoharie, from which place a detachment of five hundred troops, under the command of Col. Yan Schaick, was sent out to destroy some villages of the Onondagas. They took in this expedition 37 prisoners, and nearly as many were killed of the enemy. They were obliged to open a road from Canajoharie to Lake Otsego, f a distance of twenty miles, for the conveyance of their baggage, at which place they launched their boats upon the placid waters of that beautiful lake, and passed to its out- I f The word Otsego is thought to be a compound which conveys the idea of a spot at which the meetings of the Indians are held. There is a small rock near the outlet of the lake called the " Otsego Rock," at which precise point the sayages, according to an early tradition of the county, were accustomed to give each other the rendezvous. In confirmation of these traditions, arrow-heads, stone -hatchets, and other memorials of Indian usages, were found in great abundance by the first settlers in the vicinity of the village of Cooperstown. — Chronicles of Coope.rstoioji,
 * Annals of Tryon County.