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Coming of the Mohawks Photo by contributor William Stewart - Posted June, 2008 · Photo from Google Street View ©2010 Google - Posted December, 2010

The Coming of the Mohawks

1784

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Commemorating the arrival here on 22nd of May, 1784, under the leadership of Chiefs, John Deserontyou, Aaron Hill, and Isaac Hill, of a band of Loyal Mohawks, one of the Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, expelled from their homes in the Mohawk Valley, for their fidelity to the Empire.

Transcribed from the marker, not summarised.

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The County of Hastings
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
On a cairn on the north side of Bayshore Road (Road 16)
1.7 km east of Highway 49

N 44 11.115 W 77 04.057

Recorded June 2008. Check current access before visiting.

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