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The Kitchawank, Wappinger, and Lenape peoples who lived here for 7,000+ years
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) | 401 | 76,522 | Original → |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) | 223 | 40,085 | Original → |
| Various (1971) | 98 | 18,630 | Original → |
| Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994) | 73 | 12,771 | Original → |
| Various (1967) | 42 | 8,829 | Original → |
| Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) | 39 | 7,958 | Original → |
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] and English writers, that, subsequently to the peace of 1673, they were repeatedly, indeed uniformly, employed as auxiliaries in the wars of the Five Nations and the British against the French."2 This conclusion is n…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The former writer states that in the war of 1626, the Mohawks were successful and that the Mabicans fled and left their lands unoccupied; x the latter affirms that " war broke out " again in 1628, " between the Maike…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] the Hudson embraced in the Saratoga Champlain," (/£., 795), or with the very (Schuylerville) tract; yet from the John-plain statement by Talon : " Two Indian son Manuscripts it appears that they tribes, one called th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] were is not stated, and can only be inferred from the subsequent treatment of the tribes who were parties to it, who are described as being " linked together in interest," and who were uniformly treated as equals eve…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] front, and from an ambush, attacked maiker, sagamore of Tappan, in behalf them and a great fight ensued. The of themselves and Neversincks, having Mohawks were finally put to flight by understood that peace had been …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Mahicans with the French Indians in n, 56, 115, 130; Memorials Moravian the war of 1704. ** The inhabitants of Church, i, etc. this Province who lived on the west side 8 The Pennacooks, Schoolcraft says, of that rive…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] efforts to secure their removal to the Brodheatfs New York, 11, 294. Hudson river after their disastrous defeat 2 The Indians began to have a value in the war under King Philip. At the in the hands of the French as w…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their tradition that they were " the head of the Algonquin x nations,2 and held the Mengwe in subjection," is not without confirmation. The precise time at which the latter condition was reversed, cannot be stated; b…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] It was heard from the Bay of our grandfather had a long house, with a Gaspe to the valley of the Des Moines, door at each end, which doors were always from Cape Fear, and, it may be, from open to all the nations unit…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] selves in the power of the Iroquois. From that time they were the cousins of the Iroquois, and these were their uncle.1 While this tradition bears the impress of theory upon a sub ject in regard to which little was k…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The proposition, however, is that both of the results stated were in accordance with the terms of the peace which the English government negotiated, and not of prior Iroquois diplomacy.
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] powder and lead in proportion." The record continues : " Four hundred armed men knew how to make use of their advantage, especially against their enemies, dwelling along the river of Canada, against whom they have no…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Smith's assertion that it was prior to European occupation, is generally denied j while Brodhead's assumption that it was in 1617,' is without foundation in contemporaneous or subsequent facts. Nor could subjugation …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] cas solicited the aid of the Mohawks^ and with them continued the struggle. The transition of the province from the Dutch to the English found the contest undecided, and not only so but the Mohawks expressly asking t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] But whatever the date, the Minnisinks, a north-western family of the Minsis, as well as the Tappans, were under the obligations of subjugation in 1680, for Paxinosa or Paxowan as he was sometimes called, sachem of th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 2 Colonial History, iv, 98. Esopus in 1 660. The treaty which was 3 The terms Minquas, Minsis, Monseys, concluded by the one was concluded by and Munsies are convertible. The Min-the other. -quas who sold lands on th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] a crescent, called KockVreach. Next is Hoge-reach; and then comes Vossen-reach, which extends to Klinkersberg. This is succeeded by Fisher's-reach, where on the east side of the river, dwell a nation of savages named…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] On the south side of Wappinger's kill he locates three villages under the general name of Waoranecks, and |ibove them and occupying both sides of the river south of the " Groote Esopus R.," he places the Wappingers. …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 Dans-Kammer point. water, etc., which were and still are 2 "There being no previous survey to the known to very few Christians. Some-grants, their boundaries are expressed with times the grant is of the land that b…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Merrlcks, Merokes, or Merikokes, as they have been denominated, who claimed all the territory south of the middle of the island, from Near Rockaway to the west line of Oyster bay. Their principal village was the …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] any particular Indian, I believe is beyond hundreds of old surveys the hills, streams, human skill, so as to make it evident to • etc., by which the tracts were bounded any indifferent man." — Golden, Document-are as…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Warrawakin sachem, 1655; Gil, in 1675. 8th. The Corchattgs owned the remainder of the territory from Wading river to Oyster ponds, and were spread upon the north shore of Peconic bay, and upon the necks adjoining the…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The bounds of their tract were from Connectquut river on the east to the line of Oyster bay on the west, and from the South bay to the middle of the island. They were so much reduced by wars and disease that when set…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] At the time of the discovery they were a part of or under tribute to the Mahlcans. Wyandance, their sachem, was also the grand sachem of Paumanacke, or Sewan-hackey, as the island was called. Nearly all the deeds for…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In the winter of 1658, the small pox destroyed more than half the clan, while Wyandance lost his life by poison secretly adminis tered. The remainder, both to escape the fatal malady, and the danger of invasion in th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Long Island ' Drake's that was heated by building fires on it, Book of the Indiana and walked several times over it singing Lion Gardiner, in his Notes on East his death song, but his feet being burned Hampton, relat…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] not on Manhattan Island, but, as appears by the statements of the Long Island Indians, this care and protection was in the territory and on the island of the latter. Under this explanation there is no contradiction i…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their chiefs were Rechgawac, after whom they appear to have been called, Fecquesmeck, and Peckauniens. Their first sachem known to the Dutch, was Tackarew, in 1639. In 1682, the names of Goharis, Teattanqueer and Wea…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] we discharged six muskets, and killed with their muskets, killed three or four two or three of them. Then above an more of them. So they went their hundred of them came to a point of land way." — Hudson's Journal. to…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Another village was located between the Sing-Sing creek and the Kitchawonck, or Croton river, and was called Kestaubuinck. Their lands are described in a deed to Frederick Phillipse, August 24, 1685, and were include…