Thursday, September 16, 2010

This Day in History: September 16

The St. Johnsville Enterprise News...published an account of Adam Helmer’s heroic run of September 16, 1778, made to save the German Flats settlers from Brant’s raiders. Helmer’s run was successful and only two of the people of the western Mohawk Valley settlements met death when the red and white savages destroyed houses, barns and crops. [More]

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