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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)] cattle, without sparing even the horses." In 1626, a Weck-quaesgeek Indian, accompanied by his nephew, who was a " small boy," and another savage, while on their way to the fort to trade, were met and robbed by men i…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Some pigs were stolen from De Vries's plantation on Staten island, as it subsequently appeared " by the servants of the company, then (1640) going to the South river to trade, and who landed on the island to take in …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Meanwhile the Weckquaesgeek boy had grown to manhood, and determined to exact his long meditated atonement for the death of his uncle. Taking with him some beaver skins to barter, he stopped at the house of one Claes…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] thought the director should " lead the van," while the commu nity should " follow his steps and obey his commands." They advised, however, as an offset to this quiet bit of sarcasm, that before anything else was done…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Fortunately the guide missed his way, and the expedition was compelled to' return to Fort Amsterdam " in all the mortification of failure." The re sult, however, was that the Indians, on discovering the trail of Kief…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] From a whispered suspicion it grew to public clamor, that the embassy had no less an object than to secure the union of all the Indians in a " general war against both the English and the Dutch." The story spread to …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] While visiting this settlement a Hackinsack warrior became in toxicated, and was robbed of his beaver-skin coat. When the stupor passed off and he became conscious of the imposition which had been practiced upon him,…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The a tract of about five hundred acres in head quarters of the settlement were April, 1 640; made settlement thereon about five or six hundred paces from the the subsequent year, and gave to it the principal village…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In February of that year a party of eighty Mahicans, " each with a musket on his shoulder," made a descent on some of the old Manhattan chieftaincies, for the purpose of collecting tribute which had been withheld.1 S…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] that the " old Manhattans " had neglected *' The Mahicanders dwelling below Fort to pay them the tribute due from con-Orange, who slew," etc. — Ibld.^ 184. quered tribes. That no other chieftaincies " The Indians, th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] OF HUDSON'S RWER. 107 The plan was executed on the night of the 25th of February. The Indians had gathered behind Pauw's settlement at Pavonia, unsuspicious of attack from those to whose shelter they had fled, and we…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 " I am told for a fact that a certain lyn, towards morning the poor child, skipper, Isaac Abrahamsen, having saved overcome with cold and hunger, made a boy, and hidden him under the sails, in some noise, and was h…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In retaliation, the Montauk and the Hackimack and Tappan chieftaincies made common cause with the Weckquaesgeeks* who had suffered i-n the February attack, and who had learned fully that the Dutch, and not the Mahica…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] destroyed the cattle; they would let the little brewery of their Dutch friends stand, although they longed for the copper kettle to make barbs for their arrows.1 The Dutch were thrown into great consternation and fle…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Long Island Indians, although previously rejecting the overtures made by the director for peace, and denouncing him as a " corn thief," became more tractable when the planting season came on, and sent from the wi…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] After some days spent in negotiation a treaty was concluded on the 25th, and the chiefs dismissed with presents and solicited to bring to the fort the chiefs of the river families " who had lost so many " of their nu…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] OF HUDSON'S RIVER. ' HI " All injustices committed by the said natives against the Netherlander, or by the Netherlanders against said natives, shall be forgiven and forgotten forever, reciprocally promising, one the …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] With the renewal of difficulties in New England, in Septem ber (1643), war again broke out at New Amsterdam. " Pachem, a crafty man, ran through all the villages, urging the Indians to a general massacre." The first …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] " The other Indians," con tinues the narrative, " so soon as their maize was ripe, followed this example, and through semblance of selling beavers, killed an old man and woman, leaving another man with five wounds, w…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] ing the Wappingers of the Connecticut river, under the lead of Mayane, with whom the Dutch claimed they had never had any difficulty, but who then learned " for the first time that he and his Indians had done" them "…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] land wars, he spared neither the aged nor * Documentary History, iv, 14. the young. " He could justify putting 3 Colonial History, i, 182. the weak and defenceless to death, for 4 " They rove in parties continually s…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] demeaned themselves as soldiers and deployed in small bands, 1 " The first of these savages having the fort, and the soldiers bringing him to received a frightful wound, desired them the beaver's path (he dancing the…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In a brief space of time there were counted one hun dred and eighty dead outside the houses. Presently none durst come forth, keeping within the houses, discharging arrows through the holes. The general (Montagne) re…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] humane and Christian Underhill and the equally pious Mon-tagne, the expedition returned to Stamford bearing with them fifteen wounded. Two days after, the force reached Fort Amsterdam, where joy bells rang their welc…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] White-neymen, sachem of the Matinecocks, with forty-seven of his warriors, was secured and dispatched with a commission to do all in his power " to beat and destroy the hostile tribes." The sachem's diplomacy, howeve…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] This day, being the 3Oth August, appeared at Fort Amsterdam before the director and council in the presence of the whole commonalty, the sachems in their own behalf, and for sachems in their own neighborhood, viz : O…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] OF HUDSON'S RIVER. 119 * of the Maquas ambassadors, who were solicited to assist in this negotiation, as arbitrators, and Cornelius Anthonisson, their in terpreter and arbitrator with them in this solemn affair. Done…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] |CARCELY had the peace of 1645 been concluded before the Dutch resumed their former intercourse with the Indians, as well as their former modes of promoting trade. The town of New Amsterdam was largely given up to th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] vantage of the country and its people," had not attempted to enforce redress.1 Granting that the offenses recited had been committed, they only prove that they were in retaliation for outrages inflicted on the Indian…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] They offered no personal violence, however, and their sachems readily attended a conference, called by the authorities, and promised to take their departure in the evening. But they failed to do so. The object for wh…