Month: December 2008

CHAPTER IX ENGLISH DOMINION Pontiac’s Conspiracy – The Devil’s Hole – A Fight at Black Rock – Bradstreet’s Expedition – Sulky Senecas – The Troops Composing Bradstreet’s Command – Israel Putnam – The Revolution – Four Iroquois Tribes Hostile – The Treaty at Oswego – A Price for American Scalps – Brant, the Mohawk – … Read more

CHAPTER VII PENN IN PENNSYLVANIA   William Penn Sails for America – His Advice to His Family – The Voyage – Warmly Received at New Castle – The First Assembly – Penn Visits New York and Maryland – Unsatisfactory Conference with Lord Baltimore – The Great Treaty with the Indians – The Walking Purchase – … Read more

CHAPTER VIII FRENCH DOMINION  A Slight Ascendency – De Nonville Attacks the Senecas – Origin of Fort Niagara – Count Frontenac in the Field – Treaty of Ryswick – Queen Anne’s War – The Iroquois Neutral – The Tuscaroras – Joncaire – Fort Niagara Rebuilt – French Power Increasing – Conflicting Claims – Secret Instructions … Read more

CHAPTER VI THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA Europeans Struggle for Supremacy Along the Atlantic Coast – Quakers Settle in New Jersey – William Penn Appointed a Trustee – His Labors in Their Behalf – An Early Description of the New Country – Admiral Penn – A Province Granted to His Son – It is Named Pennsylvania … Read more

CHAPTER V FROM 1655 TO 1680 The Iroquois Triumphant – Obliteration of Dutch Power – French Progress – La Salle Visits the Senecas – Greenhalgh’s Estimates – La Salle on the Niagara – Building of the Griffin – Its First and Last Voyage – La Salle’s Subsequent Career. The overthrow of the Kahquahs and Eries … Read more

CHAPTER IV THE IROQUOIS Their Name as Applied by Themselves – System of Clans – Its Importance – Its Probable Origin – The Grand Council – Sachems and War – chiefs – Line of Descent – Choice of Sachems – Religious Belief – Natural Attributes – Family Relations, etc. From the destruction of the unfortunate … Read more

CHAPTER III EUROPEAN DISCOVERIES, ETC., 1534 – 1655 The French in New France – The Puritans in New England – The Dutch in New Netherlands – Activity of the French – Dutch Progress – The Jesuits – The Company of a Hundred Partners – Capture and Restoration of New France – Great Extent of the … Read more

CHAPTER II NATURAL FEATURES, ETC Topography – Character of Forests – The Soil – Its Products – Minerals – The Animal Kingdom – The Eries – The Kahquahs, or Neuter Nation The Hurons – The Iroquois – Earlier Occupants – Inferences. IT is deemed fitting, before beginning the record of events, to give a brief … Read more

HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY CHAPTER I OUR SUBJECT SOMEWHAT EXPLAINED The Beginning of Warren County’s History – Date of Organization – Its Boundaries – Its Area and Streams – Origin of its Name – The System to be Pursued in Succeeding Chapters. On that eventful mid – summer’s day in 1749 when Captain Bienville de … Read more