Francis Whiting Halsey

Name: The Old New York Frontier — Part 1, Chapter 3
Author: Francis Whiting Halsey

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

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“The Old New York Frontier — Part 1, Chapter 3”, published in 1901, is a work by Francis Whiting Halsey. It explores elements such as Albany, Weiser and Schoharie.

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

“ The younger Conrad Weiser, who made this journey, says there was want of leadership. Each man did as he pleased, "and their obstanacy has stood in their way ever since." Young Weiser rose to considerable eminence in Pennsylvania as an Indian agent, and his services to the Government were so important that Washington, standing at his grave in 1793, remarked that these services had been rendered in a difficult period and posterity would not forget him.
The migration from Schoharie had an important influence on the future population of Pennsylvania and New York. ”

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

“ Had these Palatines fared better in Schoharie, it is not unlikely that the upper Susquehanna Valley would have been first peopled by that race instead of the Scotch-Irish, but the Palatines were not slow to inform their friends in the old country of their experience in New York and to advise them to settle in Pennsylvania instead. Many of the Palatines never left Schoharie however, and many others remained to found thriving settlements along the valley of the Mohawk, of which enduring evidence survives in the geographical nomenclature. ”

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

“ In a short time adventurous young men set out on journeys to the interior. Dongan, in 1686, requested the Indians to see that "neither French nor English go and live at the Susquehanna River, nor hunt nor trade amongst the brethren without my pass and seal." Should any be found without such passports, he desired the Indians to "bring them to Albany and deliver them at the Town House, where care shall be taken for punishing them." He would not make exception in cases of white men married to squaws, "they being only spies upon the brethren." ”

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

“ Peter Kalm, an observing traveller, who visited Albany in the middle of the eighteenth century, says, "many persons have assured me that the Indians are frequently cheated in disposing of their goods, especially when they are in liquor, and that sometimes they do not get one-half or one-tenth of the value of their goods. I have been witness to several transactions of this kind." He refers to the "avarice and selfishness of the inhabitants of Albany" as well known. Few of the great fur traders have survived with good reputations. ”

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

“ By that time its value in the fur trade had been amply demonstrated. When Dongan came over as Governor, new energy at once was infused into the administration. In 1683 Commissioners at Albany obtained for him an account of the river and its relations to the Indian settlements, their information coming from Europeans, or "Christians," as white men were then called, as well as from Indians. The Commissioners recommended that regular traders be sent out, to form camps or settlements along the valley. ”

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

“ They had originally left their homes on the Rhine in consequence of the devastation attending the wars of Louis XIV. In England they had met the five Indian chiefs taken over by Mayor Schuyler, who offered them land in America, and Queen Anne, who had given them food and shelter, advanced the money to pay their expenses across the sea. ”

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

“ From this place trained agents were sent out along the network of trails, making contracts with the Indians at their own door – a method giving him vast advantage over the men who did business with Indians at Albany and Schenectady.
Albany had become very unpopular with the Indians. The younger Weiser records a conversation he once had with an Onondaga chief named Canassatego. "You know our practice," said the chief; "if a white man in travelling through our country enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I do you. We dry him, if he is wet; we warm him if he is cold ”

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