My ancestors were imprisoned in Fort Dayton during 1777
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In July 1783 General George Washington toured Fort Dayton, when he visited the Mohawk Valley on an inspection tour. The fort was eventually abandoned, and was razed in 1832 to make way for the Erie Canal. A memorial marker of the site of Fort Dayton can be found at the Historic Four Corners intersection on North Main Street in Herkimer.
The 1778 attack and the 1782 siege are represented in the historical novel Drums Along the Mohawk and the 'based upon the book' movie of 1939.
General Washington sent General John Sullivan (Sullivan St., NYC; Sullivan County, NY and more), the son of Irish immigrants to visit retribution against the Iroquois of NY. This he did.