Tsonentsiio

Tsonentsiio lies near the Genesee valley, where the Seneca town of Jo'néhsi:yo:h, known in English as Little Beard's Town, stood by the river. Its fields and orchards were among the settlements attacked in 1779, when General John Sullivan led an American expedition into Haudenosaunee territory. The soldiers destroyed the town and its crops, carrying the devastation of the Revolutionary War into the heart of Seneca country.