The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars with Indians and Tories; Its Missionary Schools, Pioneers and Land Titles, 1614-1800, by Francis Whiting Halsey |
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... hundred years ago , the historical explorer has at times little more to guide him than isolated facts , and his imagination , as he seeks to find a way about in the dim twilight of Indian legend and scattered lore . It is not until the ...
... hundred years ago , the historical explorer has at times little more to guide him than isolated facts , and his imagination , as he seeks to find a way about in the dim twilight of Indian legend and scattered lore . It is not until the ...
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... hundred to three hundred , and thenceforth for a hundred years they remained " a weak and dwindling people . " The last remnant of them perished in 1753 in Lancaster Jail , " cruelly butchered by a mob . " The famous orator Logan was ...
... hundred to three hundred , and thenceforth for a hundred years they remained " a weak and dwindling people . " The last remnant of them perished in 1753 in Lancaster Jail , " cruelly butchered by a mob . " The famous orator Logan was ...
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... hundred summers ago . " It contained three acres of land enclosed by a mound , and ditch . David Cusick , the Tuscarora Indian who wrote a history of the Six Nations , * went over the site of this fort in 1800 , and says it was built by ...
... hundred summers ago . " It contained three acres of land enclosed by a mound , and ditch . David Cusick , the Tuscarora Indian who wrote a history of the Six Nations , * went over the site of this fort in 1800 , and says it was built by ...
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... hundred or a thousand years before Columbus landed , which would mean 500 or 700 of our era . The value of these dates is of the very slightest . Until recent years there existed at Sidney an Indian relic known as the Knoll . It was ...
... hundred or a thousand years before Columbus landed , which would mean 500 or 700 of our era . The value of these dates is of the very slightest . Until recent years there existed at Sidney an Indian relic known as the Knoll . It was ...
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... hundred and twenty - four representatives to the congress at Ger- man Flatts . In 1772 some Indians living at Ogh- waga were known as the Ochtaghquanawecroones . The town lay on both sides of the river , just below a large bend in the ...
... hundred and twenty - four representatives to the congress at Ger- man Flatts . In 1772 some Indians living at Ogh- waga were known as the Ochtaghquanawecroones . The town lay on both sides of the river , just below a large bend in the ...
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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 164 - 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 313 - Also sixtytwo 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 105 - All Mines of Gold and Silver and also all White or other sorts of Pine Trees fit for Masts of the Growth of twenty four Inches Diameter and upwards at twelve Inches from the Earth for Masts for the Royal Navy of us our heirs and Successors.
Page 334 - 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 150 - Na" tions. On this occasion General Haldimand told us what * had befallen the King's subjects, and said, now is the time for " you to help the King. The war has commenced. Assist the " King now, and you will find it to your advantage. Go now " and fight for your possessions, and whatever you lose of " your property during the war, the King will make up to you