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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)] one rick, and a little stack of seed," and in the old village of Wiltwyck twelve houses were burned.2 Writes Bloom,3 of the scene after the Indians had retreated : " There lay the burnt and slaughtered bodies, togeth…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] new fort, Cralo, at Greenbush; the plank fence which in closed Beaverwyck, and the three guns mounted on the church, were put in order; and Fort Orange, with its nine pieces of artillery, was prepared against an atta…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Scouting parties were then sent out by the Dutch, who succeeded in bringing in a few prisoners, from whom it was ascertained that the Indians had fallen back to their castle; that this castle was " defended by three …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The pro gress was slow, however; " much stony land and hills " inter vened; long swamps and frequent kils compelled halts and the construction of bridges, and mountain passes obliged the hauling
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] kammer, and instructions issued to him to continue his efforts for the release of the captives; that failing in this, he should seize as many Indians as possible, u either on land, or by in ducing them, with fair wor…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Considerable difficulty was experienced in the march, the streams being swollen and heavy rains prevailing. On the 5th, about noon, the first maize field was reached, and two squaws and a Dutch woman discovered gathe…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 Record of the family of Louis Du cal Society, vol. i, part i, 44. Bois, 1 5 j Collections of the Ulster Hhtori-OF HUDSON'S RIVER. 153 finished, and, when surprised, the Indians " were busy at the third angle." The …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] virtually destroyed, but the facts do not two hundred." Their losses subsequently warrant the conclusion. In the attack could not have reduced them to the sixty of 1 659, "the savages, estimated at four stated. The D…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] On the 2Qth, the Wappinger again appeared and after satisfying himself that ' of the Indians in the hands of the Dutch none had died, said that six of the captives held by the Indians were then at the river side; tha…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 07? HUDSON'S RIVER. 155 circumstances he deemed it prudent to entertain the solicitations of the neighboring chiefs for the establishment of peace with the Esopus cantons, especially as it was rumored that the Englis…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Sewackenamo, Onackatin, Powsawag; scpeqau, and Reckhciucck, Siegpekenano, PfappingeryTsees-sagh-gzw; Kitchaiuan, brother of Tackapousha, with twenty Megetsewacks; Haver straw, Sessegehout; others of different chiefta…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] To still further strengthen the position of the Dutch, he sent a commission to the Soquatucks * to negotiate a peace between them and the Mohawks, for which purpose a conference was held at Narrington and a treaty co…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] OF HUDSON'S RIPER. 157 they renewed the fight the next morning at break of day, but were repelled with great loss." Filled with alarm, the colonists at Fort Orange sent in hot haste to request the presence and ad vic…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] By the terms of this treaty the inde pendence and equality of the nations parties to it, was recognized, while the tribes not in alliance with them, but " under the pro tection " of, or in treaty with, the English we…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] ransomes and presents to them upon a treaty of peace.1 " 2. That the English do make peace for the Indian Princes with the Nations down the River.2 " 3. That they may have free trade, as formerly. 1 The Abenequis, or…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] following language: "We are -united the token of that covenant." with the Six Nations in one common 162 THE INDUN TRIBES condition of the Indjans. The frictions which had prevailed during the Dutch administration wer…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] u All injuries done to the Indians of what nature soever," were made punishable on complaint and proof in any court, without cost to the complainant, " in as full and ample a manner as if the case had been between Ch…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Not less so was the treaty stipulation that the privileges of trade were to be uniform, in all English plantations, to Indians in alliance with the govern ment, and the fact that such alliance secured the friendship …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] "4. That in case any Christian should kill an Indyan, or any Indyan a Christian, the peace shall not be broaken, or any Revenge taken before satisfaction is demanded by the one party and refused by the other, allowin…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] That the said Sachems and their subjects now present do, and in the names of themselves, and their heirs forever, give, grant, alienate and confirm all their right and interest, claim or demand to a certain Parcell o…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] deliver two other round small sticks, in token of their assent to the said agreement. And the said Richard Nicholls does deliver as a present to their Sachems three laced redd coates. " 6. The said Sachems doth engag…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] pretending right to the same. u In testimony whereof we have sett our markes to two several writings, the one to remaine in the hands of the Sopes Sachems, the other upon record, this 7th day of October, 1665." The p…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 166 THE INDIAN TRIBES was one of accommodation on the part of the Abenaquis and their allies, many of whom sympathized with King Philip and eagerly shared his fate. Nor were they disheartened when, on the I2th of Aug…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] No sooner had Champlain discovered the territory of the St. 1 Ante, p, 62. The ' date of this the fugitives from that conflict are de-organization, as well as the original clas-scribed by Hubbard as having fled towar…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] captives who had formerly received their instruction. Missions 1 Bancroft, in, 122. attended his preaching at Albany, but 2 Domine Megapolensis, who came without understanding a word that he over in 1643, under an ag…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] his attention had been called by Louis, on complaint from La Barre, the governor of Canada, and if he had the disposition to aid Dongan, he was under obligations to avoid a rupture with France. La Barre's administrat…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] considerable chiefs of their nation." — the Iroquois, as the Ottaivas were aiding Colonial History, ix, 464. " The general the French." The number of their in chief of the entire Iroquois nation." — warriors stated i…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] pedition was organized to be conducted in three divisions, the first to rendezous at Montreal and proceed towards Fort Or ange; the second, at the Three Rivers and make a descent on 1 Colonial History, in, 599. 4 Fro…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] beyond Lake Champlain. In February, 1693, Frontenac in vaded the Mohawk territory, surprised and burned their castles, killed ma.ny and took three hundred prisoners. The invasion cost the invaders thirty men, but the…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The part which the Makicans and Minsis of the Hudson took in this war, is only incidentally stated. The alliance between the Iroquois and the former, was of no little magnitude in the opinion of the French, as has al…