Lake Ontario

“He repeated his idea of a junction with Howe at Albany but, to draw off the Americans, recommended a diversionary expedition by Lake Ontario and Oswego to the Mohawk River.”

Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

“In the meantime, Lieutenant Colonel Barrimore St. Léger had advanced along the route laid down for him—up the Saint Lawrence River and across Lake Ontario to a landing at Oswego on the New York shore.”

Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

“It arose in the form of a visit to Congress by Nathaniel Gorham, a Massachusetts native and former delegate to the Continental Congress who had recently purchased a tract of two million acres of unsettled Indian land below Lake Ontario and reaching west from Fort Stanwix to Lake Erie.”

Simon & Schuster: Robert Morris