In May of 1778 Matthew Wormuth, an Army Lietutent from Palatine Bridge, and his neighbor Peter Seitz were returning to the Mohawk Valley from The Fort in Cherry Valley when a British Commander named Joseph Brant, a Native Tracker, and some of Brants men Ambushed the pair. In the fight Seitz's horse was shot, and he was forced to face the attackers. He fired on a man in the dark who turned out to be Wormuth, who died later of the wound . This rock marks the place where the British lay in wait. Its said Wormuths Horse can still be heard running the route without his fallen master.