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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)] of £70, that he had then (1689) been Saugerties creek, and Katskill to a vil-absent with the Ottaivas for ten years, and lage at the junction of the Kader's and that his brother " intending to go to the the Katskill …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] A portion of them, however, appear as the allies of the French, and as such to have destroyed Hatfield and Deerfield, under the lead of Ashpelon, one of their chiefs.4 While those who were allies of the Eng lish were…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] subsistence. These Indians in time of war gave the, French intelligence of all designs here against them." — Golden, Co lonial History, v, 732. " They became a thorn to the frontier towns and settle ments of New Engl…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 The leader of the Caghnaivagas was sion to that end. Council directed that known to the French by the name of the Shawanoes, must first make peace Kryn. A party led By him was promi-with the Five Nations. — Council…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] that the Sinneques have killed them for the lucar of the beavor, or because the Mennissincks have not been with the Sinneques as usual to pay their duty; and therefore desire that your excellency will be pleased to o…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] THE MAHICANS IN COUNCIL — QUEEN ANNE'S WAR — MI GRATIONS — MISSIONARY LABORS — THE WAR OF 1746. )EACE, such as had not fallen upon the wildernesses of the New World since the Europeans added their conflicting interes…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] We are resolved to live and die here in this government, and do pray that our father will support and protect us." " I thank you for your kind expressions," replied Bellomont; " and you may be sure I will do every th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] in the Christian religion, the minister here shall teach them." And the Pennacooks accepted the mission, and went out after their 'brethren. The relations existing between the government and the Ma-hicans under the t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Through all these conferences1 and proceedings, two princi pal facts are conspicuous : the equality of the Mahicans in all treaties with the authorities, from the earliest Dutch adventurers at Fort Orange to the more…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] following is an extract : "On the 1 9th interpreter, which Major Pidgeon, who of April, Te-Gee-Ncen-Ho-Ga-Proiv and was one of the officers came with them, Sa-Ga-Yeau-Qua-Prah-Ton (King Hen-read in English to Her Maj…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The conference opened on the 24th when, " each nation seated on the ground by themselves," Go vernor Hunter thanked them for their response to the queen's com mands, and informed them that they would be expected to j…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] was held at Albany, Aug. 10, 1711, of 1 Colonial History, v, 267, etc. which the record says : "Some of ye sa-a Bancroft, in, 221, etc. 190 THE INDIAN TRIBES * From the far west the response was even more enthusiasti…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] stitute either of clothing or ammunition. Therefore, we desire our father to order the tap or crane to be shut, and to prohibit the selling of rum, for as long as the Christians will sell rum luThe Oneidas, the propr…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] were in no humor to attack so formidable a foe as the Abenaquis. Their last conflict had been at. least a drawn battle, and having formed a peace with them as well as with the governor of Canada, whose allies they we…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Houses, lands, pro tection, and a more complete recognition by the government, were temptations that these wanderers, who, like Esau, had parted with their birthright for a mess of pottage, could not resist.
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1737), where a number of Indians live, — be reported that I am dead, as it is forty Shawanos and Mahicanders." — Memorials years since I left that country." Signed, Moravian Church, i, 69. " Mohekin Abraham, or Keepe…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Here he had lived but a short time, when, on one of his hunting excursions, he came to the summit of a mountain in the present county of Kent, Connecticut. Look ing down from this eminence he saw the Housatonic windi…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] charter. Subsequent investigation having proved that the loca tion of a minister among them could be greatly promoted by availing themselves of the aid of the Society for the Propaga tion of the Gospel in Foreign Par…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In 1735, the mission was definitely located on the W-nahk-ta-kook, or the Great Meadow, the great council chamber of the nation, where a township six miles square was laid out by the legislature as a reservation unde…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] German mode of pronouncing Job. Wa-lake or Indian pond, sarnapah was the ruling chief at Sheko-3 On the east side of the Housatonic meko. He was a man of remarkable opposite the mouth of Poughtatuck creek, powers of …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Gnadenhutten (tents of grace) received them for a time, and from thence they shared the roving fortunes of the Moravians, followed in all their wander ings by their faithful Mahican converts.1 Meanwhile the commissio…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] OF HUDSON'S RIVER. 199 ware, at which place, and at Crossweeksung, " in New Jersey, towards the sea," he met with considerable success.1 His brother, John Brainerd, about the same time, established a mission at Bethe…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] that I hated such wicked practices, and the chiefs. — Colonial History, vin, 117. did not desire the Indians to become such They were repeatedly represented in the as these, and when he appeared calmer, conferences w…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] A more permanent acquisition was that of the Ochtayhquana-wicroonsf a Tuscarora clan,5 who appeared on the Susquehanna river, in the present county of Broome, ih 1 722, arM around whom subsequently gathered several M…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] sent off a colony from their principal castle, to a point about twelve miles from Oneida lake, where they established a settle ment which they called Canowaroghere or Onawaraghharee,7and which was subsequently recogn…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 3 " The Delaware Indians, who live on the east branch of the Delaware river, near the head of it, have given us the strongest assurances that they will live and die with us." — Colonial History, vu, 50. 4 " I assure …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 Colonial History, vn, 512, 6n, etc. 8 Ib., vni, 476. 9 The records of these conferences are scattered, some being found at Kingston, others in the Clinton and Johnson papers in the State Library, and others in the …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The people -of Kingston cared little for their own improvement, much less for that of the Indians, and preferred rather to earn for themselves the sobri quet of " the Sodom of New York,"1 than to perform those acts o…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Although the changes which had produced these new combinations were in a great degree the result alike of the selfish efforts of the European nations who were contesting the supremacy of the continent, and of the pre…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] was not more successful. The chiefs thanked the governor for the information which he had given them concerning the war, but the hatchet which they accepted they would keep in their bosoms. " We are," said they, " in…