New York, they enlisted
in the Avars, Avhich were still continued between the French colo-
nists and their Indians on the north, and the English colonies and
their Indians on the south, until the conquest of Canada in 1T60.
The Iroquois still claimed this territory, and fheir claim Avas ac-
knowledged by the government of New Y'^ork. But it does not
appear, that after the discovery of the lake and their retreat on
that occasion, they ever had any permanent settlement here. The
Mohawks and the other confederate tribes seem to have occupied the
eape, whicli runs up between the lake and Bulwaggy Bay, at Crown Point. Hon.
John W. Strong, thinks the place of this battle was " on Sandy Point, being the
extreme north- w*tern terminus of Crown Point, and the entrance of Bulwaggy
Bay." In one ofhis numbers in the Vergennes Citizen on "Local History,"
after describing the place as such " as would be chosen by the Indians for defence,"
and giving other reasons for his belief, he says : " The writer, in passing this place,
several years ago, was surprised at the number of arrow heads, that lay on the
shore and in the water, and on examining closely he found several pistol and mus •
ket balls, two French military buttons, a copper coin of the fifteenth century and
two clumsev musket flints."
S2 IIISTOIIY Ol' Aljbl.vvK COUNTY.
region of the Mohawk liivcr, aiul the tcnitory south of Lakes Eric
and Ontario.*
In the mean time, Lake Champlain and its ncifjhborhood was a
thoroughfare, through which the hostile parties made their excur-
sions in their alternate depredations on each other. In the