Andrustown, New York

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Andrustown, New York

ANDRUSTOWN, NEW YORK. 18 July 1778. This settlement of seven families, six miles southeast of German Flats, was plundered and burned by Indians under Joseph Brant. An unknown number of persons were killed and captured (Lossing, vol. 1, p. 255; Swiggett, War out of Niagara, p. 136).

SEE ALSO Border Warfare in New York.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Swiggett, Howard. War out of Niagara: Walter Butler and the Tory Rangers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1933.

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