During the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress, and some state governments ( on their own initiative ), issued privateering licenses, authorizing " legal piracy ", to merchant captains in an effort to take prizes from the British Navy and Tory ( Loyalist ) privateers.

During the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Army destroyed it and nearby Unadilla in October 1778 in retaliation for British and Iroquois attacks on frontier communities.

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