To facilitate its success, the resolution was also taken to enter the country of the Senecas at the same time, by the way of the Mohawk.

The officer commanding on the east of the Hudson was desired to take measures for carrying this resolution into execution; and the commissioners for Indian affairs, at Albany, were directed to co-operate with him.
Unfortunately, the acts of the government did not correspond with the vigour of its resolutions.

The necessary preparations were not made, and the inhabitants of the frontiers remained without sufficient protection, until the plans against them were matured, and the storm which had been long gathering, burst upon them with a fury which spread desolation wherever it reached.
[Sidenote: Colonel John Butler, with a party of Indians, breaks into the Wyoming settlement.] About three hundred white men, commanded by Colonel John Butler, and about five hundred Indians, led by the Indian chief Brandt, who had assembled in the north, marched late in June against the settlement of Wyoming.

These troops embarked on the Chemung or Tyoga, and descending the Susquehanna, landed at a place called the Three Islands, whence they marched about twenty miles, and crossing a wilderness, and passing through a gap in the mountain, entered the valley of Wyoming near its northern boundary.

At this place a small fort called Wintermoots had been erected, which fell into their hands without resistance, and was burnt.