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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)] 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…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] occurred about 1750. The most distinguished man of the Mabicans was Captain HENDRIK AUPAUMUT, subsequently known as Captain HEN DRIK, who appears to have sustained the most important rela tion to his tribe and to the…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] sage of the Delaware* had already shut his mouth, and he believed that in the course of the next summer he would ' be brought down from the Wabash, to the ground from which his ancestors were created,' and so it prov…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] found in all nations, whose record is marred by the weaknesses of age. " It is not conceived necessary to digress or deny the fact that Noah got drunk." x 1 History of Indian Nations, part v, 518, etc. APPENDIX. 327 …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] him no concern However, I could not forget his words. They constantly recurred to my mind. Even when I slept I dreamed of that blood which Christ shed for us. This was something different from what I had ever before …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] APPENDIX. 329 congregation at Shekomeko, and discharged its duties with credit. He subsequently accepted the chieftaincy of the Mahi-cans of the Delaware country and represented them in the con ferences with Johnson,…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The facts stated in the case, as reported by the lords of trade, on the hearing of NIMHAM, who visited England, for that purpose, are " that the tract of land, the property and possession whereof is claimed by these …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] of 1697, but only of a small part of it; x that finding themselves by these claims likely to be dispossessed of their patrimonial
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 2 Phillipse did not live to enjoy his ill-York $500,000 in six per cent stocks for gotten lands. On his death they became the title which he had acquired. the property of his father, and afterwards 3 Simcoe' s Milita…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Major Ross to conduct the corps to the heights, advanced to the road, and arrived without being perceived, within ten yards 42 332 HUDSON RIVER INDIANS. of the Indians. They had been intent on the attack on Eme-rick'…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Simcoe, and was on the point of dragging him from his horse, when he was killed by Wright, his orderly Hussar. The Indians fought most gallantly; they pulled more than one of the cavalry from their