Name: The Old New York Frontier — Part 2, Chapter 3
Author: Francis Whiting Halsey

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 2… (1901)

“ After Edwards’s return from Albany, Gideon Hawley arrived at Stockbridge and was placed in charge of one of the schools. Woodbridge, who had known Brainerd intimately, and had now been ten years at Stockbridge, had the other. Both teachers were popular with the Indians, and especially with the Mohawks and Oneidas; but a resident trustee, in his ambition to divert society funds from the proper channels, seriously impaired the usefulness of the school, and the Indians, becoming dissatisfied, resolved to return to New York. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 2… (1901)

“ It lies in a pleasant, fruitful country, surrounded by many settlements of Indians on every side and where the way is open by easy passage down the river which runs through one of the most pleasant and fruitful parts of America for four hundred or five hundred miles, exceedingly well peopled on both sides and on its several branches by Indians. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 2… (1901)

“ My brother, my dear brother, pity us: your batteau is often here at our place and brings us rum and that has undone us. Sometimes on Sunday our people drink and cannot attend their duty, which makes it extremely dificult. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 2… (1901)

“ You must not think one man or a few men have done it; we all of us both old and young have done it. It is done by the whole. My brother, I would have you tell the great men at Albany, Schenectady and Schoharie not to bring us any more rum. I would have you bring us powder, lead and clothing which we want and other things what you please; only do not bring us any more liquors. [3] The name by which the Indians called Johnson after they had adopted him. ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 2… (1901)

“ Here also they met several Indians who lived at Oghwaga, and Hawley mentions two ministers who were settled near Johnson’s house, one of whom, a Calvinist, seems to have been the Rev. William Johnston who afterward founded the settlement at Sidney.
From the Schoharie country the expedition crossed the hills to the Susquehanna, having obtained, besides a man with a horse to carry two sacks of flour, three or four “blacks ” to accompany them. They also had a “fellow named Pallas, a vagrant Indian, whose company we had reason to regret but could not refuse upon our mission.” ”

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Francis Whiting Halsey, The Old New York Frontier — Part 2… (1901)

“ Oghwaga is on the road by which several of the nations pass as they go to war with Southern nations. There are several towns of the Oneidas and several missionaries might probably find sufficient employment in those parts. [1] The Iroquois were now the Six Nations, the Tuscaroras having entered the League thirty years before Edwards wrote. [Halsey's note] Hawley finally departed on his mission, in May, 1753. He left Stockbridge in company with Woodbridge, Ashley, and Mrs. Ashley, the latter destined soon to die at the mission. ”

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