Name: The Old New York Frontier — Part 2, Chapter 6
Author: Francis Whiting Halsey

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

“ While the school remained at the lake, one of the missionaries returned to Lebanon to obtain a carpenter to build houses and make agricultural implements. Two of the Indians, Isaac Dakazenensere and Adam Wavonwanoren, in a letter dated at the lake in the summer of 1765, asked Mr. Wheelock to “assist us in setting up husbandry by sending a number of white people to live with us who, when they come, should build us mills, teach us husbandry, and furnish us with tools for husbandry.” ”

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

“ Ralph Wheelock does not appear to have possessed much knowledge of human nature. During this time his relations with Mr. Kirkland ceased to be cordial. Joseph Brant used to delight in telling a story of his school-days at Lebanon, in which Ralph did not figure as precisely the hero. With Brant in the school was an Indian boy named William Johnson, a natural son of Sir William. Ralph Wheelock one day told William to saddle a horse for him. William refused to do it on the ground that he “was not a menial, but a gentleman’s son.” "Do you know what a gentleman is.?" ”

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“ And I am much pleased to see eight or ten and sometimes more scholars sitting under their bark table, some reading, some writing and others a study-ing, and all engaged to appearances with as much seriousness and attention as you will see in almost any worshipping assembly and Moses at the head of them with the gravity of fifty or three score. ”

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

“ Hostile Indians reached Oghwaga in the same season, their purpose being either to win over the Six Nations to Pontiac or to renew the warfare on the English settlements. By some of them Isaac Hollister, a Connecticut settler, had been taken prisoner in the Wyoming Valley and carried "up the Susquehanna about one hundred and fifty miles."
So serious became the danger, that Johnson, in February, 1764, sent out an expedition under orders to capture all hostile Indians found on the river. It comprised two hundred men, mostly Indians. ”

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

“ Ultimately it failed, but not until almost every white man had been driven from the Ohio Valley, and 2,000 men on the western frontier had lost their lives.
To this uprising and its influence on the Six Nations was due Johnson’s German Flatts conference of September, 1763, to which came two hundred and seventy Indians from the Susquehanna villages. The Indians said they desired to renew the covenant chain, and declared that all their brethren on the river, as far down as Owego, were "friends and determined to remain so." ”

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

“ But, they added, “we should have you understand, brothers, that we have no thoughts of selling our lands to any that come to live among us. For if we should sell a little land to-day, by and by they would want to buy a little more and so our land would go by inches till we should have none to live upon.” A letter dated in September of the same year found these Indians back in Oghwaga.
Besides this school, others had been established among the Oneidas. Mr. Wheelock at Lebanon still had eighteen boys. ”

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