This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... Line, namely from Kaatskill to Akery 8 miles, to Batavia 12, to Red Kill 8, (on the Schoharie where it is crossed, there are said to be settled Places) from Red Kill to a Lake at the Head of the Mohawks or Main Branch of the River Delaware, 12 and to Otego about 16--in all 56 Miles.1 14th Being Sunday ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... Line, namely from Kaatskill to Akery 8 miles, to Batavia 12, to Red Kill 8, (on the Schoharie where it is crossed, there are said to be settled Places) from Red Kill to a Lake at the Head of the Mohawks or Main Branch of the River Delaware, 12 and to Otego about 16--in all 56 Miles.1 14th Being Sunday We attended Major Wells and his Family to the new Presbyterian Meeting House which is large and quite finished and heard a Sermon from the Rev. M Delap an elderly courteous Man who has lived in this settlemt above 20 years.2 The Congregation tho not large made a respectable Appearance, several of them being genteely dressed. From our Lodgings about the centre of the Valley down to the mouth of Cherry Valley Creek they reckon 12 or 14 Miles and in Freshes one may pass in a Canoe from the House to Maryland. Here are 3 Grist Mills and one Saw Mill and divers Carpenters and other Tradesmen. The Soil is a strong blac reluctance, having many old friends among the inhabitants of Cherry Valley. During the massacre his influence was one of restraint. He afterwards said the white men were " more savage than the savages themselves." The chief barbarities due to the Indians were committed by the Senecas, under the leadership of Hiokatoo, whom Brant afterwards said he could not control. 1 In April 1777 I rode over the Delaware just below this Lake, or Pond, which serves as a Reservoir for a Saw Mill, and the River is no other than a Brook, not a Foot deep, and two or three yards broad.--R. S. This reference appears to be to Summit Lake, the head of the River Charlotte, not the Delaware. The Delaware takes its source from a spring at Stamford. 2 His wife was murdered in the Massacre aforesaid.--R. S. Rev. Samuel Dunlop is here referred to. Surviving the...
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New in New jacket. A Tour of Four Great Rivers; the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna and Delaware in 1769; Being the Journal of Richard Smith of Burlington, New Jersey; Volum (Hardback or Cased Book)
