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| Wemple Tavern |
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| Peggy Wemple, sister of Adam, Jellis and John Fonda kept a tavern on the edge of the Cayadutta Creek on the old road to Johnstown. Her husband, Barent Wemple, died in 1771 leaving her with the responsibility of managing her property and family alone. She also managed a gristmill, with the help of her boy Mina.
One winter evening during the Revolution, as the story goes, she was a startled at finding herself confronted by an Indian, but was soon relieved by discovering that it was a dead one, cold and stiff, placed in her way by some mischievous person to test her nerves.
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During Sir John Johnson’s May 1780 raid, the tavern and mill were destroyed. The Indians captured her boy, and shutting her up in her tavern, set fire to it. Her cries for help were heard by her brother, John Fonda, who sent one of his slaves to rescue her. The slave returned from his successful mission, only moments before the enemy's arrival at Fonda’s house. John Fonda was taken prisoner, and his house was burned as well.
The boy Mina was released at Johnstown, and allowed to find his way back to Caughnawaga. Mrs. Wemple rebuilt her home and mill and by the winter of 1780 she had ground and bolted 2,700 skipples (2,025 bushels) of wheat, for the use in the war effort.
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