The reckoning

Robert W. Chambers

The fourth in the author's Cardigan series with the intention "to treat ... that part of the war for independence which particularly affected the great landed families of northern New York" (from the preface). An adventure as much as a romance, describing the hero's spying in New York followed by an expedition in upstate New York to frustrate Walter Butler's attempt to use the Iroquois to slaughter rebel countryside.