History Talk: Frank Salvati June 12th at 7PM “Joseph Brant, The Iroquois, and The Revolutionary War”

The Neversink Valley Museum of History & Innovation is happy to have back the local historian Frank Salvati for our History Talk Lecture Series on Wednesday June 12, 2019 at 7:00 pm when Frank will be speaking about “JOSEPH BRANT, The IROQUOIS, and the REVOLUTIONARY WAR”

Incident in Cherry Valley – the fate of Jane Wells / from the original picture by Alonzo Chappel (1828-1887); Thomas Phillibrown, engraver. Jane Wells is pleading for her life, and a man attempts to protect her from an Indian who is about to kill her. House behind them is being burned by Loyalists and Indians led by Major Walter Butler and Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant, Cherry Valley, New York. Published: N.Y. : Martin, Johnson & Co. publishers, c1856

Frank says “Many people have false notions of Brent’s role in the Iroquois Confederacy, and his association with the British during the Revolutionary War.” Joseph Brant (March 1743 – November 24, 1807; Mohawk name: Thayendanegea) was a well-known Mohawk on both sides of the Atlantic, and a native New Yorker who was a military and political leader closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution.

While the war was being waged in pitched battles in the chief colonies, British and Indian forces fought a guerrilla war in the west, and many villages were raided. The fighting was fierce in the Mohawk Valley of New York, and the frontier was in an almost constant state of terror.

It was cold, foggy and snowy in Cherry Valley, New York, that morning in history, November 11, 1778, when British Loyalists and their Mohawk and Seneca Indian allies attacked a village and fort east of Cooperstown near Lake Otsego in New York State during the American Revolutionary War, killing scores of soldiers and civilians in the Cherry Valley Massacre.

In his History Talk, Frank “will correct the misconceptions associated with Brant and show what role the Six Nations played in the Revolutionary War, particularly the Wyoming Valley and the infamous Cherry Valley Massacre.”

Frank Salvati is a resident of Port Jervis, New York.  He is a passionate student of the Indian wars, with a particular interest in the North Eastern United States.  He is a popular speaker on the French and Indian Wars, the American Revolution and the War of 1812.

So please join us for an interesting evening of Local History and Revolutionary War Stories. This History Talk will be held on Wednesday, June 12^th 2019 at 7 PM at the D&H Canal Park Visitor’s Center at 58 Hoag Road (just off route 209) in Cuddebackville, NY 12729. It is a benefit for The Neversink Valley Museum of History and Innovation and lite refreshments will be served. A donation of $5 for Members and $7 for Non-Members is suggested.

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