The Coming of the Mohawks

Photo by contributor William Stewart - Posted June, 2008

Plaque Location

The County of Hastings
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
On a cairn on the north side of Bayshore Road (Road 16)
1.7 km east of Highway 49

Coordinates: N 44 11.115 W 77 04.057

Plaque Text

Commemorating the arrival here on 22nd of May, 1784, under the leadership of Chiefs, John Deserontyou, Aaron Hill, and Isaac Hill, of a band of Loyal Mohawks, one of the Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, expelled from their homes in the Mohawk Valley, for their fidelity to the Empire.

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