Hallowed Ground Newtown, New York

n November 1778 a mixed force of 300 Iroquois, 150 Tories and 50 British soldiers raided the farming settlement of Cherry Valley on the New York frontier. They killed 30 civilians and 16 Patriot soldiers and took 70 captives (mostly women and children). Hacking their victims to pieces with tomahawks, the Indians left behind what one witness termed “a shocking sight my eyes never beheld before of savage and brutal barbarity.”