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During the American Revolution in August 1778, given advanced warning of an impending raid by Loyalist and their Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) allies, scores of families around Pakatakan (Margaretville, in the town of Middletown, Delaware County, NY) began leaving their homes to seek shelter with families and friends near Kingston.
Finding such shelter was not an easy task when so many frontier families descended on the more settled parts of Ulster and surrounding counties. Fortunately for the Henrich Yaple clan, even though Henrich has been taken captive, they had an existing place to welcome them.
