The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars with Indians and Tories, Its Missionary Schools, Pioneers, and Land Titles, 1614-1800 |
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... wives and children , come down the streams of the Mohawk River , the Dela- ware , both branches of the Susquehanna and the Potomac , to the English . If the English should expell us our country , we have a like conveyance to the French ...
... wives and children , come down the streams of the Mohawk River , the Dela- ware , both branches of the Susquehanna and the Potomac , to the English . If the English should expell us our country , we have a like conveyance to the French ...
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... wife , and soon found himself on the road to great success as a man of business . In 1739 he made plans for his trading post at Oghwaga . From this place trained agents were sent out along the net - work of trails , making contracts ...
... wife , and soon found himself on the road to great success as a man of business . In 1739 he made plans for his trading post at Oghwaga . From this place trained agents were sent out along the net - work of trails , making contracts ...
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... wife who , I fear , was very unfaithful , refusing to interpret for Mr. Spencer more than one discourse in a week , a sermon upon the Sabbath , and utterly declined assisting him in discourses and conversations in the week - time . And ...
... wife who , I fear , was very unfaithful , refusing to interpret for Mr. Spencer more than one discourse in a week , a sermon upon the Sabbath , and utterly declined assisting him in discourses and conversations in the week - time . And ...
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... wife of Augustine Prevost . Other lands Croghan sold to Joseph Wharton . Croghan took steps to settle the tract on the lake . In the course of his enterprise he mortgaged the lands , and eventually lost them through fore- closure ...
... wife of Augustine Prevost . Other lands Croghan sold to Joseph Wharton . Croghan took steps to settle the tract on the lake . In the course of his enterprise he mortgaged the lands , and eventually lost them through fore- closure ...
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... wife and eight small children on Long Island were " utterly destitute of that necessary as- sistance which so numerous a family must unavoid- ably want . " They were obliged to quit the house that they had occupied , as the owner wanted ...
... wife and eight small children on Long Island were " utterly destitute of that necessary as- sistance which so numerous a family must unavoid- ably want . " They were obliged to quit the house that they had occupied , as the owner wanted ...
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Page 40 - If a white man, in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I do you ; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that he may allay his thirst and hunger ; and we spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on ; we demand nothing in return.
Page 162 - Scalping-knife of the savage ; to call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman inhabitants of the woods ; to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren ? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment. But, my lords, this barbarous measure has been defended, not only on the principles of policy and necessity, but also on those of morality ; " for it is perfectly allowable," says Lord Suffolk,...
Page 311 - Also sixty-two of farmers killed in their houses ; the hoops red ; the skin painted brown, and marked with a hoe ; a black circle all round, to denote their being surprised in the night ; and a black hatchet in the middle, signifying their being killed with that weapon.
Page 48 - Another Tongue brought in, to confess the great Saviour of the World ; or, Some Communications of Christianity, put into a Tongue used among the Iroquois Indians in America.
Page 40 - ... spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on: We demand nothing in return. But if I go into a white man's house at Albany, and ask for victuals and drink, they say, where is your money; and if I have none they say, get out, you Indian Dog.
Page 31 - The Empire State, as you love to call it, was once laced by our trails from Albany to Buffalo — trails that we had trod for centuries — trails worn so deep by the feet of the Iroquois that they became your roads of travel, as your possessions gradually eat into those of my people.
Page 332 - Prompted by these actual observations, I could not help taking a more extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, from maps and the information of others ; and could not but be struck with the immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them.
Page 8 - Amsterdam merchant) — 1st, a miserable little fort called Fort Orange, built of logs, with four or five pieces of Breteuil cannon, and as many swivels. This has been reserved, and is maintained by the West India Company.
Page 148 - They abandoned the graves of their ancestors and never again did their council-fires burn in that valley. In July, 1775, when Colonel Johnson and the Mohawks reached Montreal, they had an interview with Sir Guy Carleton and Sir Frederick Haldimand. Brant, in 1803, declared that at this interview Haldimand said to the Indians : " Now is the time for you to help the King. The war has begun. Assist the King now, and you will find it to your advantage. Go now and fight for your possessions, and whatever...