Tigoransera
Tigoransera ( Little Abraham) A s the specter of war lingered over the Mohawk Valley , tensions between the patriot Whig faction and the loyalist Tories grew. By 1775, Sir William Johnson was dead and the responsibility for the Northern Department of Indian Affairs fell on his nephew (and son-in-law) Guy Johnson; who had his hands full from the start. Guy and Sir Williams son John felt under threat by committees in Albany County , but most unsettling was the fervor growing against them within their own Tryon County. In the spring of ’75, Whig representatives from those committees met with Col. Guy Johnson and Mohawks at Guy Park Manor to negotiate terms of peace to ensure those loyal to the British Crown remained out of the fracas. Mohawks under Tiononderoge chief Tigoransera – or Little Abraham – attended this council. Little Abraham struggled to convince Mohawks to remain neutral....
