Annals of Tyron CountyJ. & J. Harper, 1831 |
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afterward Albany American arms army arrived attack battle body British Burgoyne Butler called Campbell Canada Canajoharrie Capt Cherry Valley Clinton colony command Committee continental Continental Congress council creek death Decamped defence destroy detached dians district encamped enemy English fire force Fort Plain Fort Schuyler French friends frontier Gansevoort garrison George Clinton German Flatts Governor ground Guy Johnson Harper Herkimer honour immediately Indians and tories inhabitants Johnstown Joseph Brant killed lake land Leger letter liberty Lieut M'Kean massacre ment miles militia Mohawk river morning New-York Niagara night o'clock officers Oneida Oquago ordered Oswego party of Indians passed persons prisoners Province received regiment resolution retreat returned savages scalps Schenectady Schoharrie Schuyler Seneca sent settlement Sir John Johnson Sir William Johnson Six Nations soldiers soon Susquehanna taken Tioga tion tomahawk took town tribe troops Tryon County village warriors Willet woods wounded Wyoming
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Seite 189 - Prompted by these actual observations, I could not help taking a more contemplative and extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, and could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt His favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented until I have explored the western country and traversed those lines (or great part of...
Seite 76 - Rebellion has not been made a foundation for the completest system of Tyranny, that ever God in his displeasure suffered for a time to be exercised over a froward and stubborn generation. "Arbitrary imprisonment, confiscation of property, persecution and torture unprecedented in the inquisitions of the Romish Church, are among the palpable enormities that verify the affirmation.
Seite 19 - Had I learnt all this of your father when I was writing my poem, he should not have figured in it as the hero of mischief.
Seite 67 - Father ! — We wish you to send these scalps over the water to the Great King, that he may regard them and be refreshed ; and that he may see our faithfulness in destroying his enemies, and be convinced that his presents have not been made to ungrateful people.
Seite 111 - Gainst Brandt himself I went to battle forth : Accursed Brandt ! he left of all my tribe Nor man, nor child, nor thing of living birth...
Seite 67 - They have driven us out of our country by taking part in your quarrel. We expect the great King will give us another country, that our children may live after us, and be his friends and children as we are. — Say this for us to the great King. To enforce it, we give this belt. A great white belt with blue tassels.
Seite 17 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Seite 112 - John Butler, likewise a judge. The family were not active either for or against the country; they wished to remain neutral, so far as they could, in such turbulent times; they always performed military duty, when called out to defend the country. Col. John Butler, in a conversation relative to them, remarked—' I would have gone miles on my hands and knees to have saved that family, and why my son did not do it, God only knows.
Seite 27 - In 1784 the name was changed to Montgomery. When formed, it embraced all that part of the State lying West of a line running North and South, nearly through the centre of the present County of Schoharie. It was divided into five districts, which were again subdivided into smaller districts or precincts. The first, • beginning .at the East, was the Mohawk district, embracing Fort Hunter, Caughnawaga, Johnstown, and Kingsborough.
Seite 189 - Chastellux, a foreigner, who was in pursuit of literary as well as of military fame, ' made a tour through the Lakes George and Champlain, as far as Crown Point ; then returning to Schenectady, I proceeded up the Mohawk River to Fort Schuyler, crossed over to Wood Creek which empties into the Oneida Lake, and affords the water communication with Ontario.