Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 1781
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 59r
Additional Source Text:
"It is about an inch high and broad in proportion, it has behind the ears two Small holes thro' which Leather [thongs] were passed, and it was suspended to the neck of an Indian chief called the king of Konadasago [Konadasagea] that was kill'd in the action between Gen. Sullivan's army and the indians & Tories near New Town August 29th 1779."
Notes:
The Battle of Newtown, which took place on 29 Aug 1779 outside what is now Elmira, New York, was a victory of Continental troops over the British and their Iroquois allies. Gen John Sullivan (1740-1795) was an Irish-American major general in the Continental Army and delegate in the Continental Congress who was later governor of New Hampshire and a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The Sullivan Expedition he commanded was a scorched earth campaign against the Iroquois towns that had taken up arms against the Americans.
