Ira with Marker
N 42° 50.529 W 076° 41.532
Sign to north side of Union Springs Church
Corner of Route 90 and Seminary Street
Ira with Marker
N 42° 50.555 W 076° 41.620
House today - north side of Seminary Street
Ira with Marker
N 42° 50.291 W 076° 41.309
House today - south side of Homer Street
Ira with Marker
N 42° 48.747 W 076° 41.926
Sign at the junction of Route 90 and Great Gully Road
Ira with Marker
N 42° 48.607 W 076° 42.047
Ira with Marker
N 42° 48.593 W 076° 42.048
These two markers are located within a hundred feet of each other is a parking area on Route 90 across from Great Gully Farm.
So frequent had been the forages of the Indians which had always been conducted with much cruelty, that it was decided to make an expedition into the land of the Iroquois and "pay them off in their own coin." Washington made his dispositions as early as January, 1779. John Sullivan, the New Hampshire lawyer chosen to command the expedition, had proved his competence as an improvised major general.
Descendants of the Clinton-Sullivan campaign?
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René Menard was a French Jesuit missionary who worked in the Great Lakes region of North America among the Hurons, Algonquins and Iroquois. He was one of the first Europeans to set foot in many of the places he visited.
Ira with Marker
N 42° 50.722 W 076° 41.473
Ira and friend share a seat on Spring Mills Pond.