Border Warfare-Annals of Tryon County - Appendix Note L - NUMBER OF INDIAN WARRIORS EMPLOYED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Border Warfare-Annals of Tryon County - Appendix Note L - NUMBER OF INDIAN WARRIORS EMPLOYED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR THE BORDER WARFARE OF NEW YORK, DURING THE REVOLUTION;

OR, THE

ANNALS OF TRYON COUNTY

BY WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL

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APPENDIX

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NOTE L.

NUMBER OF INDIAN WARRIORS EMPLOYED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

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An estimate of the Indian nations employed by the British in the Revolutionary war, with the number of warriors annexed to each nation; by Captain Dalton, superintendent of Indian affairs for the United States, who, after being several years a prisoner with the enemy, arrived at Philadelphia, where he published the following account, 5^th August, 1783.

Choctaws	600	Tuscaroras	200
Chickasaws	400	Onondagas	300
Cherokees	500	Cayugas	230
Creeks	700	Jeneckaws (Senecas) {In 1783 Mr. Kirkland estimated the whole number of fighting men in the Seneca tribe at 600.}	400
Plankishaws	400	Sues and Sothuse	1300
Oniactmaws	300	Putawawtawmaws	400
Kackapoes	500	Tulawin	150
Munseys	150	Muskulthe,
Delawares	500	or Nation of Fire	250
Shawanaws	300	Reiners, or Foxes	300
Mohickons	60	Puyon	350
Uchipweys	3000	Sokkie	450
Mohawks	300	Abinokkie, or the St.
Oneidas {The Rev. Mr. Kirkland informed Dr. Stiles that there were 410 souls before the war, and that 120 joined the enemy.}	150	Lawrence	200
		Warriors	12,690

{10^th vol. Mass. Collections, page 123.}

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