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Comprehensive histories of the county and Town of Cortlandt
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
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| J. Thomas Scharf (1886) | 916 | 173,521 | Original → |
| Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) | 572 | 106,421 | Original → |
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Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] 23 when they found grain was very plenty in that country, they agreed to kindle a fire there and hang a kettle whereof they and their children after them might dip out their daily refreshment.1 The name given…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] "When the Dutch first met the Mohicans," says Rut-tenber, ik they were iti conflict with the Mohawks (an Iroquois nation), and that conflict was maintained for nearly three-quarters of a cen-
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] irives the true derivation in his ' Names in Connecticut.' p. 31, viz.: "The Mohegans, or Muhhekanneuks. took their tribe name from the Algonkin maingan, " a wolf." ' The maps and records prove this conclusiv…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The Dutch, in their early wars against the Indians of Westchester County, were perplexed to hud that the Highland tribes, with whom, as they supposed, they were upon terms of amity, were rendering assistance …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] They first sold their lands June 8, 1633, to the Dutch West India Company ami upon them Erected the Dutch trading post of « Good Hope:; but ten years Iter tney executed a deed to the English, embracing " the …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] by Brodhead and other New York historians. Bolton gives to this chieftaincy the name of Nappeekamaks, a title which, however, does not appear in the records except as the name of their principal village on th…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The tract occupied by the Reckgawawancs on the mainland was called Keckesick, and is described as " lying over against the flats of the Island of Manhates." In its northern extent it included the site of the …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The name really signifies " Trap fishing place/' 2(5 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY White Plains, and Rye, being ultimately very largely included in the Manor of Philipsbor-ough. Their sachem in 1649 was Ponup…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] There was apparently a division of chieftaincies at one time, Kitchawong figuring as sachem of the village and castle on the Croton and Sachus of the village of Sackhoes or Peekskill. The lands of the chief-t…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] They had villages beside Wampus Lake in the town of North Castle, near Pleasant -ville, in tlic town of Mount Pleasant, and near the present villages of Bedford and Katonah. 6. The Siwanoys, also known as "on…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] town of Westchester they had a castle on what is still called Castle Hill Neck, and a village near Bear Swamp, of which latter they remained in possession until 1(389. One of their Sachems whose name has been…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] " two canoes full of men, with their bows and arrows, shot at us after our sterne, in recompense whereof we dis-charged six muskets, and killed two or three of them. Then above a hundred of them came to a poi…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] individual, as thev were able to inflict. Their characteristics in these 28 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY respects, and their disposition of complete unteachableness as to moderation and Christian precept, ar…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] that still overspread the northern part of Rye. This was the case in most of the Connecticut towns the law obliging the inhabitants to reserve to the natives a sufficient quantity of plant-except as slaves. T…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] INDIAN SPECIMENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. JAMES WOOD. 3(5 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY the settlers, it was naturally with the colonists that their sympathies were enlisted when the struggle with Great Bri…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] marching off immediately to Boston and staying there; it may be a great while before blood runs. Now. as I said, you are wiser than I; I leave this for your consideration, whether I come down immediately or w…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] with the enemy in Westchester County. "At White Plains, in Oc-tober, 1770Y" says Ruttenber. "their united war cry, Woach, Woach, Ha, Ha, Hach, Woach! rang out as when of old they had disputed the supremacy of…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] In 1780 the surviving remnant of the Mohican warriors, some twenty men, were honorably discharged from the army, and returned to their homes. It was upon this occasion that Washington wrote the letter above a…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Inured to abstemiousness by the rigors of his lot and but little dis-posed to sexual gratification, the Indian yet fell an easy victim, and speedily became an abject slave, to strong drink. It was not the tas…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] said that they used fish for fertilizing the soil, but this use must have been on an extremely limited scale. The extent and character of the trade relations between the Indians of the same tribe and those of…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The blue or violet portions of the shells furnished the material for the dark wampum, which was held in much higher estimation than that made of the white portions, or of the spines of certain univalves. Acco…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] In these various cases the arrangement of the colors and the tigures of the belts corresponded to the object in view : on peaceable occasions the white color predominated; if the complications were of a serio…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Among the Iroquois tribes, who formed the celebrated " league," there was a special keeper of the wam-puni. whose duty it was to preserve the belts and to interpret their meaning, when required. The civil ins…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The Indian sachems and chiefs of the Hudson have left no names familiar to the general reader — certainly none comparable with those of Massasoit, Miantonomoh, Uncas, and Philip, of New England, or Powhattan,…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Many, however that have been handed down colloquially without having been recorded m deed or record, have become so altered that even the Amerind himself, should he reappear from the « happy hunting ground," …
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Alipkonck.—«A place of elms." This interpretation, given by Schoolcraft in 1844, is probably correct. Allowing for the interchange or permutation of / and w, as well as b and p, occurring in many dialects, we…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] present,1 ay. Cowan (J01 igh.— -A h Croton A p, irsoni ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS 47 Honge. — Blind brook. Probably taken from Acquehung. Kisco. — See Keskistkonck. Kitchawong. — Var., Kicktawanc, Kechtawong, Klc…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] "A strong flowing brook," Manuhketsuck. Earlier-forms might suggest another interpretation. Mamaroneck. — A river, so named after Mamaronock, a chief who lived at Wiquaeskeck in 1044. Variations, Moworronoke,…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Nipnichsen. Indian village and castle near Spuyten Duyvil. The name denotes "a small pond or water-place." Onox. Eldest son of Ponus. Onux (wonnux) "the stranger." Ponus. — A chief; he places (something). Pat…
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Sackwahung. — A locality at West Farms. An evident variant of Aquehung. Shorakapkock. — Spuyten Duyvil Creek, where it joins the Hudson, "as far as the sitting-down place," i.e., where there was a portage. Sh…