Francis Whiting Halsey

Name: The Old New York Frontier — Part 1, Chapter 2
Author: Francis Whiting Halsey

The Old New York Frontier — Part 1… (1901)

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“The Old New York Frontier — Part 1, Chapter 2”, published in 1901, is a work by Francis Whiting Halsey. It explores elements such as Susquehanna, Unadilla and Indian.

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 1… (1901)

“ The Empire State, as you love to call it, was once laced by our trails from Albany to Buffalo – trails that we had trod for centuries – trails worn so deep by the feet of the Iroquois that they became your roads of travel, as your possessions gradually eat into those of my people. Your roads still traverse those same lines of communication which bound one part of the Long House to the other. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 1… (1901)

“ In 1683 the Indians called the river "the Kill which falls into the Susquehanna." The stream had obviously at that time received no name. Near Afton, on an island, was a village called Cunahunta, a word sometimes written Conihunto, and Gunnegunter, but most important of all these Indian settlements was Oghwaga, [6] where at the time of the Revolution existed the largest Indian town in the valley, with an orchard, a church, a fort, and many other signs of civilization. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 1… (1901)

“ Into the most dis-tant regions the tribes of the Iroquois from the ear-liest ages had gone over this highway of their own building for purposes of war, plunder, and pleasure. Along the banks of this stream trails had been deeply worn by red men’s feet. Generations had passed over them, and the white man, coming later, put them to use before constructing roads of his own. In many cases the white man’s roads were actually built by widening the trails, as was the case with the present road from Sidney to Unadilla on the northern side of the river and the main thorough-fare of Oneonta. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 1… (1901)

“ One Indian could run one hundred miles in a day. This extraordinary skill has been ascribed to the absence of horses in America before the coming of Europeans. Indians, from necessity, acquired the accomplishment of the horse. They did more. They performed feats which only the well-trained bicyclist can perform to-day. They made century runs.
The upper Susquehanna and its branches, includ-ing the Unadilla, penetrated lands in which dwelt or hunted Mohawks, Oneidas, and Onondagas, while the Chemung penetrated the lands of the Senecas. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 1… (1901)

“ The first settlers on the site of Cooperstown found arrow-heads and stone hatchets in great abundance. The apple-trees were of large size. Cooper thought the place had been more or less frequented by Indian traders for a century before the regular settlement began. The English early recognized the Susquehanna as a gate-way to the South. In 1721 the King was advised to erect a fort near where the river flows out of the lake.
Remains of ancient villages on the river at points below Cooperstown have often been discovered. Small relics in considerable numbers have been preserved in private hands. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 1… (1901)

“ An Indian trail, as described by Morgan, was from twelve to eighteen inches wide, and was often worn to a depth of a foot where the soil yielded readily. In time of war, trained runners were employed to carry messages to distant points. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 1… (1901)

“ Indian Villages in the Upper Valley
THE Indian population on the upper Susquehanna was centered in small villages. It was never large. Parkman, in reference to the whole continent, has remarked that the Indians everywhere were few and scattered. Even in parts thought to be well peopled, "one might sometimes journey for days together through the twilight forest and mee no human form." Around the Susquehanna villages small clearings had usually been made. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 1… (1901)

“ Stone is at a loss to understand why the pioneers were not content to accept as final the spelling adopted by an educated Indian like Brant. [5]
[5] The reader will be impressed with the likeness of the form Teyona delhough to the name of another Indian village referred to by Gideon Hawley as Towanoendalough, which also was a place where trails and streams met. A word much like it, Teondaloga, was applied by the Indians to Fort Hunter, the place where the Schoharie joins the Mohawk, the meaning of which was, where two streams come together. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 1… (1901)

“ In times of extreme low water the rock now appears as an oval cone about nine feet in diameter one way and six the other. From the bed on which it rests it rises about four and a half feet. When the water is extremely high the rock is covered. ”

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