Francis Whiting Halsey

Name: The Old New York Frontier — Introduction
Author: Francis Whiting Halsey

The Old New York Frontier — Introduction (1901)

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“The Old New York Frontier — Introduction”, published in 1901, is a work by Francis Whiting Halsey. It explores elements such as Susquehanna, settlement and fur traders.

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Introduction (1901)

“ Previous to the Revolution, the growth and spread of settlements in America had been extremely slow everywhere. More than a century elapsed after Columbus found the New World, before Hendrick Hudson discovered the stream that bears his name. A still longer period passed away before the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower. When permanent settlements were first planted in the Susquehanna Valley, two and a half centuries had come and gone since that memorable voyage from the Port of Palos. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Introduction (1901)

“ Beyond certain dates, those of about two hundred years ago, the historical explorer has at times little more to guide him than isolated facts, and his imagination, as he seeks to find a way about in the dim twilight of Indian legend and scattered lore. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Introduction (1901)

“ Thus it becomes a history, furnishing a type of the settlement of Central New York.
In the history of the upper Susquehanna Valley as a highway, three distinct periods might be named. First come the trails of the Indian era, dating from immemorial times and including the years of the fur traders and the Protestant missions. Second is the time from 1770 to 1783, when by turns the valley was a road for pioneers coming into the country, to be driven out by fire and the tomahawk; a road for Indians bent on spoliation or massacre ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Introduction (1901)

“ Those centuries, so barren of history here, had witnessed events of great pith and moment elsewhere. England had gone forward from the Wars of the Roses almost to the reign of George III. Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon, Dryden, and Pope are among those gifted men of genius by whom her intellectual greatness had been advanced. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Introduction (1901)

“ For the most part men had been born, had lived, toiled, and died absorbed in the simple pursuits of trade and domestic life.
In the province of New York the first successful men were fur traders who exchanged Dutch goods for beaver skins. During more than half a century after Hudson’s arrival these Dutchmen did scarcely anything more. Villages grew up on Manhattan Island and in the Hudson and Mohawk valleys. The trader’s boat penetrated down the head-waters of the Susquehanna. But wherever villages were founded, they were not so much permanent settlements as trading-posts. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Introduction (1901)

“ In fact, by combining the new material with the old, it has now become possible to prepare a continuous historical record of the valley, covering the period from our day back to the years when the feet of white men first followed the Indian trails of the Susquehanna, almost three centuries ago. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Introduction (1901)

“ On American soil we can point to little of striking renown during those generations. Near the end of them Washington had become a name associated honorably with the French War. Jonathan Edwards had astonished men in Europe, as well as here, with the vigor and subtlety of his mind. Franklin had made contributions to human knowledge of great worth and potency. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Introduction (1901)

“ Campbell, with an able and gentle hand, wrote the story of the settlement of Cherry Valley, and of stirring events in Tryon County during the Revolution. Stone wrote the biography of Brant as might one who loved Brant and honored his memory. ”

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