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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 → |
| Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) | 50 | 5,568 | Original → |
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] name of Wayaughtanock." In the pro-2 The name is local, and is applied, in ceedings of a convention held at Albany a petition by William Caldwell and others in 1689, the name is applied to the in 1702, to a " tract o…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] belonging to the Indian grantors, and, with his previous pur chases, became the proprietor of a tract of country twenty-four miles long, and forty-eight miles broad, containing, by estima tion, over seven hundred Tho…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Sales east of the Taghkanick mountains, in the state of Connecticut, are recorded, and among others that of a tract to Johannes Diksman and Lawrence Knickerbacker, now in the town of Salisbury, the grantors being Kon…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] OF HUDSON'S RIVER. 89 with the new chief." In 1751, he writes at Gnadenhutten, in Pennsylvania : " Two deputies were likewise sent to the great council of the Mahikan nation at Westenhuck, with which they appeared mu…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Tl\e fact that Westenhuck was the point selected for missionary labor, by the Societyfor the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, is additional proof of its importance, though the extremities of the nation wit…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] for knives, beads and articles of clothing. It was at their hands, also, that John Coleman, one of Hudson's crew, lost his life 1 Abraham, whose Indian name was Pennsylvania, from whence he returned Schabash, was one…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] the one from the other. This district Indians" named in the text were, but it was abandoned by the natives for two is not an improbable supposition that they reasons; the first and principal is, that were Shawanoes. …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their territory extended from the vicinity of Hackinsack river to the Highlands.4 De Vries pur chased lands from them in 1640, which he describes as "a beautiful valley under the mountains, of about five hundred acre…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 12 92 THE INDIAN TRIBES evidence that his sachemship had much earlier date. Their name survives in Tappan bay, which probably bounded their possessions on the Hudson. 6th. The Haverstraw s. North of the Tappans and i…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] By deed to Stephen Van Cort-landt in 1683, it would appear that they had either moved fur ther north or had more northern territory, the tract conveyed being described as lying opposite Anthony's nose, from the u sou…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Van der Donck places them in the Highlands on the east side of the river and south of Matteawan creek, and De Laet on the west side as occupants of the Esopus country.1 Wassenaar agrees with De Laet in locating them …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Were not De Laet's location sufficiently clear, there are other reasons for assuming that the " Murderer's 1 " This reach (the Fisher's) extends and the subsequent signatures classed as to another narrow pass, where,…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] name by which they were last designated was that of the creek now called " Murderer's; " their first name disappears from the early records almost simultaneously with the appearance of the latter,1 and with the gener…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 4 " A little beyond, on the west side, Maringoman's Castle. 1This creek is first called Murderer's on Van der Donck's map, 1656, and was so called doubtless from events occurring during the first Esopus war. 3 Esopus…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The district inhabited by the Mame-kotings was west of the Shawangunk mountains and is still known as the Mamakating valley. Their history is so intimately blended with that of the Esopus Indians that identification …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] head of the waters falling into the Hud-Mohaiuks, but their more considerable son, all the land on which belonged to emigration was to Pennsylvania. * 96 THE INDUN'TRIBES pie, as may be inferred from Kregier's accoun…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] here ? She answered that some Katskill rounded by tomahawks, arrow-heads, Indians lay on the other side near the etc. In one grave was found a sheet iron Sager's kill, but they would not fight tobacco box containing …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 2d. The Qneldfls, etc. The Oneidas had, in 1677, one town, " the old Oneida castle," as it was called, containing one 1 Colonial History, in, 250; Brodhead's seven Mohawk villages, but they New York, 11, 129. Pierron…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] ade fifty-eight feet square, and the whole way, Albany, and called Fort Orange, surrounded by a moat eighteen feet wide, by which name, and that of Beaverwyck, Its armament consisted of two large guns the small settl…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The sale of fire-arms to the Mahlcans and Mohawks at Fort Orange and the refusal to sell to the chieftaincies in the vicinity of Fort Am sterdam 4 was a constant irritation, to allay which the Dutch traders treated t…
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…