CHAPTER VI.

Lord Dunmore--Glance at the South--Suspicious conduct of Sir John Johnson--Conduct of the Tories in Tryon County--Gen. Schuyler directed by Congress to march into that County and disarm the Tories--Preliminary mission to the Lower Mohawks--Message to them--Their displeasure and reply--March of Schuyler--Meets the Indians at Schenectady--Interview and speeches--Advance of Schuyler--Letter to Sir John Johnson--Interview--Negotiations of capitulation--Terms proposed--Schuyler advances to Caughnawaga--Joined by Tryon County Militia--Farther correspondence with Sir John--Interview with the Indian mediators--Terms of surrender adjusted--Schuyler marches to Johnstown--Sir John, his household, and the Highlanders, disarmed--Troops scour the country to bring in the loyalists--Disappointment as to the supposed Tory Depot of warlike munitions--Return of Schuyler to Albany--Resolution of Congress--Additional trouble with Sir John--Preparations for his seizure--Expedition of Col. Dayton--Flight of the Baronet and his partisans to Canada--Their sufferings--And subsequent conduct--How the violation of his parole was considered. 119