Author: Catherine UrellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Indians, Settlers, and Pioneers in New York State
Author: Catherine UrellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Old New York Frontier
Author: Francis Whiting HalseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Old New York Frontier
Author: Francis Whiting HalseyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332328857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Excerpt from The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars With Indians and Tories, Its Missionary Schools, Pioneers and Land Titles, 1614 1800 Reasons for writing this history may in some numbers be cited. About one hundred and sixty years before the Revolution - earlier, in fact, than the landing of the Pilgrims - these lands had been visited by white men. Traders had travelled along the Indian trails of the Mohawk and Susquehanna valleys periodically all through that century and a half, while for at least a quarter of a century before the Revolution, missionaries had engaged in constant labor on the Susquehanna. By the missionaries, schools and churches were founded, and a beneficent and fruitful work was well under way when the war put a sudden end to peaceful activities. The lands on the Susquehanna for a considerable time were the frontier of the province of New York, the Unadilla River, one of the tributaries of the larger stream, forming another part of that boundary line between the Indians and the English, which was established by the treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768. Beyond this line no settlements were made until after the war, when the white man secured his first titles in that fertile region of Central and Western New York. During the Revolution the upper Susquehanna became a base of operations from which the Indians and Tories, who had fled from the Mohawk and Schoharie valleys, found their way back into the settled parts of New York, and under Joseph Brant, Colonel John Butler, Walter H. Butler, and Sir John Johnson wrought their destruction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Pioneers
Author: David McCulloughPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501168681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
Native American & Pioneer Sites of Upstate New York
Author: Lorna MacDonald CzarnotaPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625847769
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Prior to the Revolutionary War, everything west of Albany was wilderness. Safer travel and the promise of land opened this frontier. The interaction between European settlers and Native Americans transformed New York, and the paths they walked still bear the footprints of their experiences, like the shrine to Kateri Tekakwitha in Fonda. Industry and invention flourished along these routes, as peace sparked imagination, allowing for art and the freedom to explore new ideologies, some inspired by Native American culture. The Latter Rain Movement took hold in the heart of the Burned-Over District. Utopian communities and playgrounds for the wealthy appeared and vanished; all that remains of the Oneida Community is its Mansion House. Follow New York's westward trails--the Erie Canal and Routes 5 and 20--that opened the west to the United States, beginning in Albany and moving westward to Buffalo.
The Old New York Frontier; Its Wars With Indians and Tories; Its Missionary Schools, Pioneers and Land Titles, 1614-1800
Author: Francis Whiting HalseyPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781378635100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
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The Old New York Frontier Its Wars with Indians and Tories Its Missionary Schools Pioneers and
Author: Francis Whiting HalseyPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780526763412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars with Indians and Tories, Its Missionary Schools, Pioneers, and L
Author: Francis Whiting HalseyPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780530879673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
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The Frontiersmen of New York
Author: Jeptha Root SimmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The Old New York Frontier
Author: Francis W. (Francis Whiting) HalseyPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290933872
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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