p5 1817 Journal Thomas Dean

County, New York, in 1788. A tract of land had been pur- chased from the Oneida Indians in 1774, but owing to the hostility of the Mohawk tribe during the Revolutionary War, it was considered unsafe for them to move until after the war had closed. The Brothertown Indians consisted of rernnants of the following tribes: Mohegans, Farrningtons, Stoningtons, Pequods, Narragansetts, Montauks, and Ne- hantucks.

The boat crew, for the voyage to Indiana consisted of chiefs and leading men of the Brothertown tribes, as fal- lows: Paul Dick, Jacob Dick, Thomas Isaacs, Charles Isaacs, and Rudolphus Fowler. There were also two Indian women aboard, Sarah Dick and Betsy Isaacs, wives of chiefs. The only white person in the company was Thomas Dean, their attorney, agent, and captain.

There is no description of the boat, but at Vincennes, Indiana, "Dr. Lawrence S. Sheelee, who had been on the boat yesterday, took a brief account of our voyage with intention of publication." The boat drew twenty-one inches of water. Going down the Allegheny River they took on three passengers; it therefore carried eleven people with ease, besides the chests and other cargo. It was built by Thomas Dean at Deansboro, Oneida County, New York, and launched into the Oneida Creek. He, with his party, ran the boat down this creek into Oneida Lake, out through Oneida River into Oswego River, and down into Lake Ontario. On Lake Ontario he sailed to Niagara and up the Niagara River, portaged around the great falls and sailed to Budalo. From Buffalo be sailed on Lake Erie to a har- bor near Chautauqua Lake and there portaged the boat into