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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)] assist such as shall come in as brothers, I will let them know it. Those who come to me with hostile intent, I will stop, and if they will not by reasonable terms turn about and join with me, I will then make an end …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] my uncles have given me a tomahawk and appointed and authorized me to make peace with a tomahawk in my hand, I take that tomahawk and turn the edge of it against your enemies the French." The papers which were transm…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] line to it west," which the English had cheated them out of.1 In this conclusion he was most amply justified by the results which had been experienced. Peace had been declared, but no exchange of prisoners had taken …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] cung attended as the representative of thirteen nations,1 assumed the position which he had formerly occupied, and sustained himself with eloquence and dignity. Finding that nothing could be done unless the land ques…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] the clans of that nation whose removal given to the Six Nations, but the to the Delaware country had commenced confederate title is probably used in this in 1730 (ante, p. 194). as in many other cases when the desig-…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] fall of the British government upon this lages, 1 60 warriors j Oneidas, two villages, continent." — Bancroft. 250; Tuscaroras, one village, 140; Qnon-IUI understood and was told by them dagas, one large village, 1.5…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] nocks, whose destruction was accom-derived from that of the chief under plished by the English of Maryland aided whose charge they were placed. — Gallatin, by the Five Nations. They were removed 55. from Maryland and…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] ranks men of intelligence, and of so much O.P HUDSON'S RWER. 247 to flight. The loss to the English of one hundred and fifteen men, or about one-fourth of their force, attested the bravery of the assailants.1 During …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Senecas were required to stop hostilities and engage never again to make war upon the
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Fort Pitt, and reduced the garrison to one who has discovered great inveteracy much danger. Col. Boquet, with six hun-against the English, and led several par-dred men and a large convoy, marching ties against them d…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Red Hawk, to collect all captives from the lower towns and restore them in the spring.2 On the 2yth of April, 1765, the pledges which had been given by the Senecas were redeemed by the surrender of the 1 Stone, in hi…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The attachment of the northern and western Indians to the French was strong; the grievances of the Senecas and their Lenape allies were aggravated by the peace to which they had been compelled and in which they had b…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] by Turtle Heart OP Aquarsqua, Wieween-the government by way of correction, and oghwa, Tedabajhsika, Lenapes of the these are the Six Nations, Shawanoes, Ohio, and Benavissica, Manykypusson, and Delawares. They are we…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] standpoint of the success which had crowned their efforts. En tering upon the struggle as " poor women" striking their op pressors with " billets of wood," they emerged from it u increased in interest and respect," i…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] ^Stockbridge, Past and Present. "They the Abenaquis to compensate them for served as a corps in the late war, and are their loss. — Johnson Manuscripts, xxiv, in number about fhree hundred." — Tryon, 125. OF HUDSON'S…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Not the last, but the closing record of the English administra tion in reference to them is that by Governor Tryon, in 1774 : " The river tribes have become so scattered and so addicted to wandering, that no certain …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In their controversies in regard to these encroachments the Indians had learned to distinguish between the king of England and those whom they regarded as their oppressors, and to assume that while the latter were tr…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 Stone's Life and Times of Sir Wm. sented seven Indian scalps, and stated Johnson. The attack, however, appears their having taken them in the following to have been wholly without justification, manner : That a num…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] This movement had been anticipated, and sharp shooters stationed in ambuscade, shot numbers of them in their canoes, and compelled the others to return. Logan's mother, brother and sister were among the slain. These …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] people, who approaching near the shore, murders committed by Cresap, who with observed the white people lying in ambush some.frontier banditti, causelessly mur-for them, and, attempting to return to dered near forty …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] quois" (Gallatin, 55), but such does not 395. appear to be the fact, except as they were 258 THE INDIAN 7RIBES vited the northern and western Indians thither and delivered to them speeches " setting forth the danger …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] assistant to Johnson; Daniel Claus and Guy Johnson, the sons-in-law of Johnson, were entirely familiar with the duties to be 1 The children borne to him by Molly made legitimate by marriage a short time Brant, sister…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] quently made a liberal endowment of land for the purpose of founding a school which was originally called Hamilton Oneida Academy, subsequently incorpo rated under the name of Hamilton Col lege. After a life of much …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] gress authorized the employment of In-Major Joseph Hawley, Turbot Francis, dians. Those who acted with the colo-Oliver Wolcott and Volkert P. Douw. nial forces prior to that time were enlisted The department included…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] prietaries of Pennsylvania, and desired that the settlement which 'Abraham was the brother of Hen-History, vn, 115). He subsequently fol-drik (Colonial History). He originally lowed the fortunes of the Johnsons, but …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] in 1742, and succeeded his father to his settled in Canada. He was appointed title and estates in 1774. He was not superintendent and inspector general of as popular as his father, being less social Indian affairs in…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] instructed to visit Brant at Unadilla. Herkimer took with him three hundred Tryon county militia, and invited Brant to meet him. This the chief agreed to. It was a week after Her kimer arrived at Unadilla, however, b…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] grand council of the Six Nations, who were invited to assemble " to eat the flesh and drink the blood of a Bostonian;" in other words, to feast on the occasion of a proposed treaty of alliance against the patriots, w…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 See Life of Mary Jamison. This birth. At the council here spoken of pamphlet was written in 1823, and pub-she was present with her husband. — lished by James D. Bemis, of Canandai-Lossing's Field Book of the Revolu…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] " Brothers : When you have any trouble, come and tell it to us, and we will help you." The occasion for the services of the Mahlcans was not long delayed. When the alarm came up from Lexington, a year later, they too…