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.


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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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