Tioga Herald

The impact on what is now the two counties named Tioga, of Pennsylvania and New York, and the Native Iroquois tribes is astounding. Many of the Iroquois tribes sided with the British Loyalists, so these were some important battles for the founding of this nation.

Much of the accomplishments by Gen. Sullivan was purportedly in retaliation for British / Iroquois massacres of American colonists.

The Expedition followed a trail up the Susquehanna River, the Wyoming Valley (Wilkes Barre, PA) and the Native village of Tioga Point near present-day Athens, NY, just south of present-day NY’s Tioga County areas of Barton / Waverly and Owego.

In the end, a statement was offered in the Iroquoian language:

Skoi Yase Heoweh gnogek

Translated: Once a Home, Now a Memory

In 2023, the Revolutionary War Journal published an article about the details of the Sullivan Expedition.

Citation:

Schenawolf, H. (2023, Apr. 18). General Sullivan’s expedition against the Iroquois and the Battle of Newtown [present-day Elmira]. Revolutionary War Journal.

The link is provided here: https://revolutionarywarjournal.com/general-sullivans-expedition-against-the-iroquois-and-the-battle-of-newtown/