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From: "sallylight" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: Re: "Aughguagas" Indians

> The Aughguagas Indians are referenced in O'Callaghan's Documents Relative*
> (1855) V:675 in Schoharie Cty. and on other pages. They were ~ to the
> "Schoharies:" Indians on the margins of their society considered "losers"
in
> that they were not recognized by the Mohawks.
>
> *to the Colonial History of the State of New York.
>
> Sally Light
> Historian, Town of Austerlitz
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lester Hendrix" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 7:18 PM
> Subject: Re: "Aughguagas" Indians
>
>
> > I recall reading of raids from and against Oquaga. I believe it was in
> > the Sidney-Bainbridge-Unadilla area or someplace nearby and a hotbed of
> > loyalism frequented by Capt. Brant at al and periodically raided by Col.
> > Harper and other rebels including those from the Schoharie forts.
> > Perhaps the natives of that area were called Oquagas.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > history. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Harold Miller
> > Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:28 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: "Aughguagas" Indians
> >
> >
> > I am researching a massacre near Schoharie led by Adam Chrysler, a
> > Loyalist who was born in Schoharie County but who fled with his family
> > to Canada at the start of the Revolution. He reports that in 1781 he led
> > a party of Aughguagas on a raid to the Schoharie Valley.
> >
> > I presume he misspelled the name of the tribe. Can anyone identify them
> > for me?
> >
> > Harold Miller
> > Berne History Project www.Bernehistory.org
> >
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