A History of Herkimer County: Including the Upper Mohawk Valley, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ; with a Brief Notice of the Iroquois Indians, the Early German Tribes, the Palatine Immigrations Into the Colony of New York, and Biographical Sketches of the Palatine Families, the Patentees of Burnetsfield in the Year 1725 ; and Also Biographical Notices of the Most Prominent Public Men of the County ; with Important Statistical InformationJ. Munsell, 1856 - 497 halaman |
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Halaman 86
... Brant was then collecting a large force at Ogh- kwaga , or Unadilla , for a more important and far more serious expedition , in its effects , which he led in the following month . Brant wanted provisions , and took this method of ...
... Brant was then collecting a large force at Ogh- kwaga , or Unadilla , for a more important and far more serious expedition , in its effects , which he led in the following month . Brant wanted provisions , and took this method of ...
Halaman 87
... Brant's long stay at the Unadilla without striking a blow on some one of the exposed points of the frontier , excited a suspicion among the inhabitants that he might be meditat- ing an attack upon them , and a party of four men were ...
... Brant's long stay at the Unadilla without striking a blow on some one of the exposed points of the frontier , excited a suspicion among the inhabitants that he might be meditat- ing an attack upon them , and a party of four men were ...
Halaman 88
... Brant , at the head of three hundred tories and one hund- red and fifty - two Indians , approached the confines of the settlements just at nightfall , but the weather being unpro- pitious and the night dark , he made a halt near ...
... Brant , at the head of three hundred tories and one hund- red and fifty - two Indians , approached the confines of the settlements just at nightfall , but the weather being unpro- pitious and the night dark , he made a halt near ...
Halaman 89
... Brant . aggres- Shortly after the events above narrated , William Dygert , who had been taken prisoner by Brant on Fall hill some time in July or August , was recaptured by the Oneida and Tuscarora Indians and restored to his friends ...
... Brant . aggres- Shortly after the events above narrated , William Dygert , who had been taken prisoner by Brant on Fall hill some time in July or August , was recaptured by the Oneida and Tuscarora Indians and restored to his friends ...
Halaman 102
... N. Butler , a man of enterprizing boldness , but whose heart was a compound of ferocious hate , insatiable cruelty , and unappeasable revenge . 2 Even Brant himself denounced him as more unrelenting than the 102 HISTORY OF HERKIMER COUNTY .
... N. Butler , a man of enterprizing boldness , but whose heart was a compound of ferocious hate , insatiable cruelty , and unappeasable revenge . 2 Even Brant himself denounced him as more unrelenting than the 102 HISTORY OF HERKIMER COUNTY .
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