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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)] Their fugitive clans at Oghkawaga, and their associates from the Esopus tribes,2 refused for a time to take up the hatchet against the colonists, and held the Tuscaroras to neutrality; while those among the Lenapes, …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The principal campaign in which the British Indians were engaged was that undertaken in 1777, to determine the control of the Hudson river. Sweeping down from Canada with his powerful army, Burgoyne recaptured Crown …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] its site. The old fort was erected during " During the action (at Oriskany), when the French and Indian war of 1755, and the garrison found the Indians' camp subsequently became a point of much (who went out against …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] in Lossing's Field Book. Having lost Mohawk castles occurred after the battle their shirts the Indians evidently feared of Bennington, and that the fugitives fled that they might lose their skins. to Burgoyne, but th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Colonel John Butler succeeded, in the spring of 1778, in organiz ing a force of five hundred Indians and six hundred tories, and with these made his appearance on the Susquehanna. At Win-termoot's fort, on the third …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] offer of harassing an enemy.1 Although Butler withdrew his followers from the valley almost immediately after the massacre, he nevertheless left behind him those who had personal grievances to avenge and mercenary re…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] censure by blackening the name of Brant, by the contestants. The truth of Wyom-the fact is pretty well established that he ing can only be written by an analysis was almost entirely innocent of the ex-of the actors i…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] cause of your friends, and ventured your lives in our battles. While the sun and moon continue to give light to the world, we shall love and respect you. As our trusty friends, we shall protect you, and shall at all …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 2 This village took its name from that remove to Canada, where they were of the ancient Mohawk village called established at a mission called by them-Gaudaouague 5 by the French, On-selves, in remembrance of their an…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] alarmed at the havoc in their ranks and fled; a brisk fire was kept up for some time by the tories, until Butler, who was watching the fight from behind a tree, exposed his head and fell under a quick ball from an On…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] OF HUDSON'S R17ER. 287 ment which followed was compelled to retreat. On the follow ing morning the whole of the British force at Kingsbridge was ordered out and the largest portion placed in an ambuscade, while Emeri…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 288 THE INDIJN TRIBES thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried." The privations which the p…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] and Jjis associates as followers. The latter accepted the belt, and began hostilities along the western border, then covering an extent of four hundred miles. To restrain and punish the insurgents General Harmer was …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] themselves; and I am persuaded their against whom he manifested at all times general confederacy is entirely broken, the most intense hatred. Indeed, it would not be very difficult, if * Stone* s Life of Branty 11, 3…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] once of great value to us, and we appre hend that neither time nor distance, nor the non-use of our rights, has at all affected them, but that the courts here would consider our claims valid were we to exercise them …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] lature dated "Trenton, March 12, 1832: " Bartholomew S. Calvin (his English name), takes this method to return his thanks to both houses of the state legis lature, and especially to their committees, for their very r…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] "There may be some who would despise an Indian benediction; but when I return to my people, and make known to them the result of my mission, the ear of the Great Sovereign of the universe, which is still open to our …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] about three and a half miles west of Doylestown, in that county. Heckewelder adds, that when Colonel George Morgan of Princeton, visited the western Indians, by order of congress, in 1776, he was so beloved for his g…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In 1718, he headed the deputation of Indian chieftains at Philadelphia, who signed an absolute release to the proprietaries *for the lands " situate between Delaware and Sus'quehanna, from Duck creek to the mountains…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Weisser writes : " ALLUMMAPEES would have resigned his crown before now, but as he had the keeping of the public treasure (that is to say of the council-bag), consisting of belts of wampum, for which he buys liquor, …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] When the Moravians appeared at Bethlehem, TEEDYUSCUNG came to hear them; soon after professed conversion and was bap tized. His conversion, however, was not proof against the wrongs which his people had suffered, and…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The hollowness of the former he boldly exposed, and the latter he scornfully rejected; so that it was soon perceived that the Indian king was as astute and sagacious, as he was unmovable in the justice of his righteo…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] the Ohio country in 1758, and that he was the last Shawanoe king east of the Alleghanies. At the time of his removal he was an old man, and was doubtless soon after gathered to his fathers. His son Kolapeka or Teatap…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] while thus detained he ^was joined by his son Ellinipsico. Soon after the arrival of the latter, a white man named Gilmore was killed near the fort. The cry of revenge was raised, and a party of ruffians assembled, u…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] putting a stop to the selling of rum, will tend to make us religious and lead better lives than we now do." Comparisons, it is said, are odious; in this case they are not necessary in order to strip from history the …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] He was born, says Stone, in the Ohio country, in 1742, where his father and mother were 1 Speaking of the succession of kings, supplied by the election of Joseph Brant, Schoolcraft remarks : " The din of ihe an entir…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] intermarriage with the Shawanoes, a Mingoe. He was a friend of the white men, by education and association, and one of the noblest of his race, not only by right of birth, but in considera tion of his own character. …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] trader. RED JACKET was a full-blooded Seneca. Both were distinguished for their eloquence, and both were engaged in the border wars of the revolution as inveterate enemies of the colo nists. The former died in 1836, …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Thomas Morton, in his New Eng lish Canaan, thus speaks of him, being in this country at that time : " That Sachem or Sagamore is a Powah of great estima tion amongst all kind of salvages, there hee is at their Revels…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] are gone Its sap is frozen It bends It falls Peace, peace with the white man is the command of the Great Spirit, and the wish — the last wish of Passaconnaway." The old chief did not die at that time, but his activit…