Currytown, New York
Currytown, New York
CURRYTOWN, NEW YORK. 9 July 1781. About noon several hundred Tories and Indians under John Doxtader surprised this small settlement eleven miles southeast of Fort Plain (part of Canajoharie). Although he burned a dozen houses, most of the inhabitants successfully took refuge in a fortified house ("Fort Lewis") and repulsed the attack. Colonel Marinus Willett reacted promptly and defeated Doxtader the next day at Sharon Springs Swamp.
SEE ALSO Border Warfare in New York; Sharon Springs Swamp, New York; Willett, Marinus.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Roberts, Robert B. New York's Forts in the Revolution. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980.
revised by Robert K. Wright Jr.
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