Concerning her death outside Fort Stanwix:
"On the 3d of July, about noon, Colonel Willett chronicles in his narrative that he was startled from his siesta by the report of musketry; hastening to the parapet he saw a little girl running with a basket in her hand, while blood was trickling down her bosom. It appeared that the girl, with two others, had been picking berries not forty rods (660 feet) from the fort (Fort Stanwix) about where now stands the freight house of the N.Y.C.R.R. and were fired upon and two of the number killed. The girl who escaped was but slightly wounded. One of the girls killed was Katy Steers, twenty years old, daughter of one of the settlers." Our Country and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Oneida County New York, Wager 1896, page 29.
"According to Willett, the incident occurred on 3 July (See Stone, Siege and Battle, p 228). However, it is obvious that he either erred or he got this particular incident confused with some other incident that occurred on 3 July 1777. In actuality, the date of this incident was Sunday, 27 July. In a letter personally written by Colonel Gansevoort, he opened the letter with the words: "Dear Sir – Yesterday, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, our garrison was alarmed with the firing of four guns." ("Yesterday" implies 27 July). Continuing on, Gansevoort cited "three girls, who were out picking raspberries, were brutally attacked of which two were lying scalped and tomakawked."" With Musket and Tomahawk Vol II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign In The Wilderness War of 1777, Logusz, p 96.
"Lossing, Vol. 1, p. 252, fn. 6, cites the girls had been gathering blackberries when attacked. "Two were killed and scalped, but the third escaped." The murdered girls were wrapped in a tarp and buried behind the fort."" With Musket and Tomahawk Vol II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign In The Wilderness War of 1777, Logusz, p 96.
"One of the girls killed was the daughter of an invalid who had served many years in the British artillery." The Hatchet and the Plow: The Life and Times of Chief Cornplanter, Betts, p 50.
"Sumner Patent. — In the northwest corner of what is now Marcy is a tract of 2,000 acres of land granted May 2, 1770, to Hezekiah Sumner, reserving gold and silver mines and trees for masts, to be free of quit-rents the first ten years, and after that to be subject to the annual quit-rent of 2s. 6d. for every 100 acres. This tract has ever since been known as the Sumner Patent. The patentee was a subaltern officer, re-tired on half- pay. It is believed he was the officer in charge of the British stores of Fort Stanwix at the time of the Revolution, and whose daughter was shot by the Indians in July, 1777." Our County and It’s People; A Descriptive Work on Oneida County New York, Daniel Elbridge Wager, 1896. Colonial Land Patents 107
"On the 3d of July, about noon, Colonel Willett chronicles in his narrative that he was startled from his siesta by the report of musketry; hastening to the parapet he saw a little girl running with a basket in her hand, while blood was trickling down her bosom. It appeared that the girl, with two others, had been picking berries not forty rods (660 feet) from the fort (Fort Stanwix) about where now stands the freight house of the N.Y.C.R.R. and were fired upon and two of the number killed. The girl who escaped was but slightly wounded. One of the girls killed was Katy Steers, twenty years old, daughter of one of the settlers." Our Country and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Oneida County New York, Wager 1896, page 29.
"According to Willett, the incident occurred on 3 July (See Stone, Siege and Battle, p 228). However, it is obvious that he either erred or he got this particular incident confused with some other incident that occurred on 3 July 1777. In actuality, the date of this incident was Sunday, 27 July. In a letter personally written by Colonel Gansevoort, he opened the letter with the words: "Dear Sir – Yesterday, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, our garrison was alarmed with the firing of four guns." ("Yesterday" implies 27 July). Continuing on, Gansevoort cited "three girls, who were out picking raspberries, were brutally attacked of which two were lying scalped and tomakawked."" With Musket and Tomahawk Vol II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign In The Wilderness War of 1777, Logusz, p 96.
"Lossing, Vol. 1, p. 252, fn. 6, cites the girls had been gathering blackberries when attacked. "Two were killed and scalped, but the third escaped." The murdered girls were wrapped in a tarp and buried behind the fort."" With Musket and Tomahawk Vol II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign In The Wilderness War of 1777, Logusz, p 96.
"One of the girls killed was the daughter of an invalid who had served many years in the British artillery." The Hatchet and the Plow: The Life and Times of Chief Cornplanter, Betts, p 50.
"Sumner Patent. — In the northwest corner of what is now Marcy is a tract of 2,000 acres of land granted May 2, 1770, to Hezekiah Sumner, reserving gold and silver mines and trees for masts, to be free of quit-rents the first ten years, and after that to be subject to the annual quit-rent of 2s. 6d. for every 100 acres. This tract has ever since been known as the Sumner Patent. The patentee was a subaltern officer, re-tired on half- pay. It is believed he was the officer in charge of the British stores of Fort Stanwix at the time of the Revolution, and whose daughter was shot by the Indians in July, 1777." Our County and It’s People; A Descriptive Work on Oneida County New York, Daniel Elbridge Wager, 1896. Colonial Land Patents 107
Concerning her death outside Fort Stanwix:
"On the 3d of July, about noon, Colonel Willett chronicles in his narrative that he was startled from his siesta by the report of musketry; hastening to the parapet he saw a little girl running with a basket in her hand, while blood was trickling down her bosom. It appeared that the girl, with two others, had been picking berries not forty rods (660 feet) from the fort (Fort Stanwix) about where now stands the freight house of the N.Y.C.R.R. and were fired upon and two of the number killed. The girl who escaped was but slightly wounded. One of the girls killed was Katy Steers, twenty years old, daughter of one of the settlers." Our Country and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Oneida County New York, Wager 1896, page 29.
"According to Willett, the incident occurred on 3 July (See Stone, Siege and Battle, p 228). However, it is obvious that he either erred or he got this particular incident confused with some other incident that occurred on 3 July 1777. In actuality, the date of this incident was Sunday, 27 July. In a letter personally written by Colonel Gansevoort, he opened the letter with the words: "Dear Sir – Yesterday, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, our garrison was alarmed with the firing of four guns." ("Yesterday" implies 27 July). Continuing on, Gansevoort cited "three girls, who were out picking raspberries, were brutally attacked of which two were lying scalped and tomakawked."" With Musket and Tomahawk Vol II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign In The Wilderness War of 1777, Logusz, p 96.
"Lossing, Vol. 1, p. 252, fn. 6, cites the girls had been gathering blackberries when attacked. "Two were killed and scalped, but the third escaped." The murdered girls were wrapped in a tarp and buried behind the fort."" With Musket and Tomahawk Vol II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign In The Wilderness War of 1777, Logusz, p 96.
"One of the girls killed was the daughter of an invalid who had served many years in the British artillery." The Hatchet and the Plow: The Life and Times of Chief Cornplanter, Betts, p 50.
"Sumner Patent. — In the northwest corner of what is now Marcy is a tract of 2,000 acres of land granted May 2, 1770, to Hezekiah Sumner, reserving gold and silver mines and trees for masts, to be free of quit-rents the first ten years, and after that to be subject to the annual quit-rent of 2s. 6d. for every 100 acres. This tract has ever since been known as the Sumner Patent. The patentee was a subaltern officer, re-tired on half- pay. It is believed he was the officer in charge of the British stores of Fort Stanwix at the time of the Revolution, and whose daughter was shot by the Indians in July, 1777." Our County and It’s People; A Descriptive Work on Oneida County New York, Daniel Elbridge Wager, 1896. Colonial Land Patents 107
"On the 3d of July, about noon, Colonel Willett chronicles in his narrative that he was startled from his siesta by the report of musketry; hastening to the parapet he saw a little girl running with a basket in her hand, while blood was trickling down her bosom. It appeared that the girl, with two others, had been picking berries not forty rods (660 feet) from the fort (Fort Stanwix) about where now stands the freight house of the N.Y.C.R.R. and were fired upon and two of the number killed. The girl who escaped was but slightly wounded. One of the girls killed was Katy Steers, twenty years old, daughter of one of the settlers." Our Country and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Oneida County New York, Wager 1896, page 29.
"According to Willett, the incident occurred on 3 July (See Stone, Siege and Battle, p 228). However, it is obvious that he either erred or he got this particular incident confused with some other incident that occurred on 3 July 1777. In actuality, the date of this incident was Sunday, 27 July. In a letter personally written by Colonel Gansevoort, he opened the letter with the words: "Dear Sir – Yesterday, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, our garrison was alarmed with the firing of four guns." ("Yesterday" implies 27 July). Continuing on, Gansevoort cited "three girls, who were out picking raspberries, were brutally attacked of which two were lying scalped and tomakawked."" With Musket and Tomahawk Vol II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign In The Wilderness War of 1777, Logusz, p 96.
"Lossing, Vol. 1, p. 252, fn. 6, cites the girls had been gathering blackberries when attacked. "Two were killed and scalped, but the third escaped." The murdered girls were wrapped in a tarp and buried behind the fort."" With Musket and Tomahawk Vol II: The Mohawk Valley Campaign In The Wilderness War of 1777, Logusz, p 96.
"One of the girls killed was the daughter of an invalid who had served many years in the British artillery." The Hatchet and the Plow: The Life and Times of Chief Cornplanter, Betts, p 50.
"Sumner Patent. — In the northwest corner of what is now Marcy is a tract of 2,000 acres of land granted May 2, 1770, to Hezekiah Sumner, reserving gold and silver mines and trees for masts, to be free of quit-rents the first ten years, and after that to be subject to the annual quit-rent of 2s. 6d. for every 100 acres. This tract has ever since been known as the Sumner Patent. The patentee was a subaltern officer, re-tired on half- pay. It is believed he was the officer in charge of the British stores of Fort Stanwix at the time of the Revolution, and whose daughter was shot by the Indians in July, 1777." Our County and It’s People; A Descriptive Work on Oneida County New York, Daniel Elbridge Wager, 1896. Colonial Land Patents 107
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