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Dutch colonial documents, Van Cortlandt deeds, and early Westchester settlement
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
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| E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856) | 1005 | 189,431 | Original → |
| Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848) | 325 | 61,761 | Original → |
| Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848) | 236 | 43,115 | Original → |
| E.B. O'Callaghan (1849) | 153 | 26,639 | Original → |
Passages
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] FRONTENAC'S EXPEDITION, 1696. [ Council Min. VII. ] At a Council held at his Ma^8 ffort in New Yorke the 9* of July 1696. Present His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher &c ifred Phillips ) Gab Monvielle ) Steph. Cortlandt > Esq/8 …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Allyn of Connecticutt giving account of two fi'rench men taken prisoners neere the heads of their rivers and that they report there is 1000 ffrench & 2000 Indians marched against the five Nations. Also a letter from Coll. In…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 208 Do therefore advise that a letter be wrote to the Indians to give them encouragement and to acquaint them the King of England has sent them some presents & desire them to be watchfull. At a Council held at his Matys ffor…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] COUNT FRONTENAC'S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE ONONDAGAS. 213 not ready, they should bring five of their most influential Chiefs as hostages, and that they should be soon followed by the army to oblige them by force to execute the…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] An old man, also captured, did not experience the same fate. M. le Comte's intention, after he had interrogated him, was to spare his life on account of his great age, but the savages who had taken him and to whom he was giv…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Ben Fletcher Signed David Jamison CI. Concilij. [ Council Minutes VII. ] I Esq" Att a Council held at his Matyes ffort in New Yorke the 18th of August 1696 Present His Excell : Benjamin Fletcher &c. Steph Cortlandt } John La…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] COUNT FRONTENAC'S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE ONONDAGAS. 221 His Excell said : — Brethren, It is an inexpressible satisfaction to me that I see you here. I do heartily condole the losse our brethren the Onondages and Oneydes have…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 30 gunn barrills and locks 6 pound of vermillion 30 brasse kettles Prime cost in England of the above goods £200 sterling. A list of presents added by the government of New Yorke. 1 piece of duffils 100 hatchetts 2 cask of S…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] His Excell. Coll. Benjamin Fletcher, &c. Coll. Nicholas Bayard William Pinhorne Esqr Major Peter Schuyler Matth: Clarkson, Esqr Sec*. The Mayr Aldermen of Albany &c Sanonguirese a Sachim of the Mohaques was Speaker Brother C…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] At a meeting of the Sachims of the Five Nations at Albany Octob. 2d 1696. Present His Excell. Coll. Benjamin Fletcher, &c. Coll. Nich. Bayard } William Pinhorne Esq. > of the Council Major Peter Schuyler, ) Matth : Clarkson …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] have here said and that we may have an answer. We now have made our word good : here is the cup. Then laid down some small bundles of bever saying — it is but small, but [it] is as it were saved out of the fire. His Excell; …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] We have been a long time in the Covenant Chain with the brethren of New Yorke, in which afterwards at sundry times the brethren of Virginia Maryland Pensilvanla, the Jerseys, Connecticut and New England came and linked thems…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] I shall send to the Great King my Master by the first opportunity and be careful in sending you the Great Kings answer, as I told
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Of the Troope of Horse in ye said Regm* John Lawrence... Capt. Jonath: Smith... Leiut Daniel Lawrence.... Cornet Jon Finne.... Quartermaster The Regiment consists of six hundred & one men, Of the Regiment of Militia in filin…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Cornells Christianse Eldert Timonse Jno: Quackenboes Junr Peter Ouderkerk Jacob Cluit John Cluit Frederick Cluit Saml: Creeger Derrick Takelsen Mattias Boose Snor Johannis Christianse Half Moon. Jacobus Van Schoonhoven Evert…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] The aforesaid Land belongs to us, Cayugas and Onondages, alone; the other three Nations viz1 the Sinnekes, Oneydes and Maquaas have nothing to do with it. We have not only conveyed, but given it, four years ago, to Corlaer, …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 262 PAPERS RELATING TO THE SUSQUEHANNAH RIVER. i [ Council Min. V. ] At a Council held at ffort James in New-York, Oetobr. [1683.] Psent The Governor Capt. A. Brockholls Mr. ffr. Fflypsen J. Spragge Mr. S. V. Cortland The In…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 264 PAPERS RELATING TO THE SUSQUEHANNAH RIVER. That Penn's people may not settle under the Susquehannah River. They have putt themselves under the King and give two Deer Skins for the King to write upon them, and put a great…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] French or any other people, and our fire burn in your houses and your fire burns with us, and we desire that it always may be so, and will not that any of your Penns people shall settle upon the Susquehanne River; for all ou…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 265 know that Great Penn did speak to us here in Corlaer's house by his agents, and desired to buy the Susquehanne River, but we would not hearken to him nor come under His Government, and there-fore desire you to be witness…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] The Govern' gave presents to the Indians for wch they thanked him after their manner, and he said to them Brethren ******** I allso desire that neither ffrench nor English go & liue at the Susquehannah River; nor hunt nor tr…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] table to your Majty. Whereas if they be annexed the charge will be no more to your Majty than now without them, and their conjunction must at least increase the Revenue 3 fold, besides will make this province not only capabl…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] that the Connoge Indians had not been satisfied for their Lands. The Governour promised redress. In the yeare 1749 the Six Nations renewed the aforesaid Complaint to Governor Hamilton. (NB. It doth not appear upon Record tha…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] In a Speech of the Six Nations at a publick meeting with Sir William Johnson on the 3d July 1755 They said Brother, You desire us to unite and live together and draw all our allies near us, but we shall have no land left eit…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] The Proprietors say they cannot conceive that the last purchase made of land to the Westward of Susquehanna could possibly be the Cause of the hostilities committed by the Indians living on that River &ca. Sir William Johnso…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] At the same time John Schecelany, a Deleware Indian, burned some houses that were built on Penns creek (be-low Shamokin on the West side) and said there should be no plantations made on their hunting grounds, and all the Ind…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Sir William Johnson also refers himself to the Extract from a Speech of the Six Nations to Gov1' Denny and Mr Croghan (before mentioned in these Remarks) in answer to their earnest call upon the Six Nations to assign if they…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] The Examinant says he often heard the Delawares say that the reason of their quarrelling with and killing the English in that part of the country was on account of their lands which the people of Pensilvania Government cheat…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] a detachment of ten soldiers sent there, and he will take measures, next spring, to secure that post. M. de la Jonquiere adds that the Savages were instigated to -this attack by the English. The Iro-quois who were on a compl…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] French, and represent the whole affair to His Majesty, both of the French building at Niagara, con-trary to the treaty of Utrecht, and of their disturbing our undoubted right of Trading and building upon the land of the five…