History of Warren County

CHAPTER XII FROM 1791 TO 1800   Troublous Times on the Border – Baneful British Influence – Uneasy Iroquois – Colonel Proctor Visits Them – Interesting Details Gathered From His Journal – His Mission a Failure – St. Clair Defeated – The Iroquois Become Insolent – Their Arrogant Demands – Cornplanter Joins the Malcontents – … Read more

CHAPTER XI CORNPLANTER AND OTHER INDIANS – 1790-91 The Seneca Chieftain Invited to Visit Philadelphia – Letter from Thomas Mifflin – Ensign Jeffers’s Letter – The Journey – Arrival in the Quaker City – Subsequent Proceedings – Cornplanter’s Speech to the Supreme Executive Council – President Mifflin’s Reply – Cornplanter Meets President Washington – Returns … Read more

PREFACE While it may seem to the uninitiated a task involving but little difficulty to prepare for publication a work no more comprehensive in character than this volume and containing the history merely of a single county, still it is not out of place here to assure all such readers that the work is one … Read more

CHAPTER X   FROM 1783 TO 1790 Forlorn Condition of the Senecas at the Close of the Revolutionary War – Willing to Cede the Remainder of their Lands in Pennsylvania – Commissioners Appointed to Treat with Them – A Sum Appropriated to Purchase Indian Goods – Quantity and Kind of Goods with which Purchase was … Read more

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