Totiakton

In 1677, Wentworth Greenhalgh described Totiakton, or Tiotehatton, as a large town on the edge of a hill near the river Tiotehatton, west of Ganagorah by about 30 miles, with about 120 houses, the largest village he saw, houses commonly 50 or 60 feet long with 13 or 14 fires in one house, and abundant corn growing about a mile north of the town. In July 1687, during the French campaign against the Senecas, Jacques Rene de Brisay, Marquis de Denonville, reported that allied Indians reached Totiakton with booty, finding the village abandoned and partly burned by the retreating enemy, with only three or four cabins consumed. A few days later he called Totiakton the Great Village or the Village of the Conception and found even more planted fields there. Louis Henri, Chevalier de Baugy, wrote that by July 22 and 23, 1687, forces at Totiakton burned corn, cut down crops, and completed the destruction of the harvest after rain delayed them, noting a remarkable quantity of reserve corn and estimating the Senecas at 15000 to 16000 souls, with old and new corn estimated at 400,000 minots.

Victor, New York · United States