Proceedings of the New York Historical Association [1906]

September 1.--The army moved at 8 A. M. Several defiles and a large swamp occasioned our Brigade to encamp about three miles in the rear of the army. The army encamped that nigh...

Norton, in his general description of Sullivan, says: "His eyes were keen and dark, his hair curly black, his form erect, his movements full of energy and grace. His height was...

In the name of God, amen. I, Charles Clinton, of Little Brittain, in the County of Ulster and Province of New York in America, being of sound mind and memory, blessed be God, do...

On July 20th occurred one of the many skirmishes for which the "Half-Way Brook" is noted. One of the several scouting parties sent out by Montcalm to attack and harass the soldi...

The destruction of the confederacy was necessary to the well being of the colonists. During the Revolutionary war, harassed as they were by roving bands instigated by the tribes...

The locations of the castles or principal towns of the nation, as noted in Van Curler's Journal, has given rise to considerable discussion, particularly in regard to the locatio...

Whatever occurred after this belongs simply to the making of a bargain. The mind of Napoleon had acted. It is not easy, perhaps, to differentiate the influences that led to such...

A unique and ingenious feature of the essay is the author's "Moral and Physical Thermometer," which forms its frontispiece. On the ascending scale, "Strong Beer" is placed in th...

Much-Hattoos, a hill so called in petition of William Chambers and William Sutherland, in 1709, for a tract of land in what is now the town of New Windsor, and in patent to them...

In our economic order, the trust, the trade-unions--often in our day instruments of danger--are factors that in the end will tend to good. They are a part of the great synthetic...

This idea the Jesuits had to accept, although in exceptional cases, they seemed to impress their idea of God upon some of their converts while they had them at the missions, but...

Aristotle--that other imperial Greek genius, whom Dante called "the master of those that know;" who had less imaginative mysticism than Plato, but a stronger hold on realities;...

[FN-3] The Journal locates the place at Lat. 42 deg. 18 min. This would be about five miles (statute) north of the present city of Hudson. "But," wrote Brodhead, "Latitudes were...

Ponkhockie is the familiar form of the name of the point, cove or landing-place on the south side of Kingston Point. It is from Dutch _Punthoekje,_ meaning, "Point of a small ho...

Arackook, Kachawaweek, and Oghgotacton are record but unlocated names of places on the east side of the Wallkill, by some presumed to have been in the vicinity of Walden, Orange...

Unlike the experience of the most of those who entertain pronounced ideas and proclaim them in the face of established custom. Dr. Clark seems to have retained his popularity. E...

Mattasink, Mattaconga and Mattaconck, forms of names given to certain boundmarks "of the land or island called Mattasink, or Welch's Island," Rockland County, describe two diffe...

[FN-1] Williams wrote in the Narraganset dialect _Qussuck,_ stone; _Qussuckanash,_ stones; _Qussuckquon,_ heavy. Zeisberger wrote in the Minsi-Lenape, _Ksucquon,_ heavy; _Achsun...

Minisink, now so written and preserved as the name of a town in Orange County, appears primarily, in 1656, on Van der Donck's map, "Minnessinck ofte t' Landt van Bacham," which...

She'kom'eko, preserved as the name of a small stream which rises near Federal Square, Duchess County, and flows thence north to Roelof Jansen's Kill, was primarily the name of a...

Mannhonake, the name of Gardiner's Island--"called by the Indians Mannhonake, [FN] and by us the Isle of Wight"--means, "Island place or country," from _Munnohhan,_ "Island," an...

Wawarasinke, so written by the surveyor as the name of a tract of land granted to Anna Beake and her children in 1685, has been retained as the name of a village situate in part...

Narrioch was given by the chief who confirmed the title to it in 1643, as the name of what is now known as Coney Island, and _Mannahaning_ as that of Gravesend Neck. (Thompson's...

The place to which the name was applied in the deed of 1658 seems to have been an open tract between the streams named, presumably a field lying along the Hudson, from the descr...

The chief result was the practical destruction of the Iroquois Confederacy. While the Six Nations were very active on the frontier the following year, the Confederacy as an orga...

Manhattan, now so written, does not appear in the Journal of Hudson's exploration of the river in 1609. On a Spanish-English map of 1610, "Made for James I," and sent to Philip...

[FN] The word _Chippe_ or _Shappa,_ means not only separate, "The separate place," but was employed to describe a future condition--Chepeck, the dead. As an adjective, _Chippe_...

According to Art. IX of the Saratoga "Convention," "All Canadians and persons connected with the Canadian Establishment," "Independent Companies" (which included the Tories) and...

Yaphank, Yamphank, etc., a village in Brookhaven, is from Niantic dialect in which _Y_ is used for an initial letter where other dialects employ _L, N_ or _R._ Putting the lost...

Mannepies is quoted by Riker (Hist. Harlem) as the name of the hilly tract or district of Keskeskick, described as lying "over against the flats of the island of Manhattan." It...

Caniade-rioit is given as the name of Lake George, and "The tail of the lake" as the definition, "on account of its connection with Lake Champlain." (Spofford's Gazetteer.) Fath...

Wait, William Kinderhook. Wakeman, Abram 136 Front St., N. Y. Wallander, A. W. Mt. Vernon. Waller, Rev. Henry D. Flushing. Warren, E. Burgess Lake George. Watrous, Harry W. Hagu...

Koghkehaeje, Kachhachinge, Coghsacky, now Coxsackie, a very early place name where it is still retained, was translated by Dr. Schoolcraft from _Kuxakee_ (Chip.), "The place of...

Van Curler's description of the castle has been quoted. He did not say that it was palisaded, but he did call it a "fort," which means the same thing. Rev. Megapolensis wrote, i...

Moggonck, Maggonck, Moggonick, Moggoneck, Mohonk, etc., are forms of the name given as that of the "high hill" which forms the southwest boundmark of the Paltz Patent, so known,...

Schenectady, now so written, is claimed by some authorities to be an Anglicism of a Mohawk-Iroquoian verbal primarily applied by them to Fort Orange (Albany), with the interpret...

Roberts, James A. (Comptroller State of New York): New York in the Revolution as Colony and State. Records discovered, arranged and classified in 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898. Seco...

Oi-o-gue, the name given by the Mohawks to Father Jogues in 1646, at Lake George, to what we now fondly call Hudson's River, is fully explained in another connection. The stream...

Mr. Asahel R. Wing, Fort Edward Term Expires 1906 Mr. Elmer J. West, Glens Falls " 1906 Rev. John H. Brandow, Schoharie " 1906 Hon. Grenville M. Ingalsbe, Sandy Hill " 1906 Col....

Section 3. The first Board of Trustees shall consist of those designated in the Articles of Incorporation, who shall meet as soon as may be after the adoption of this Constituti...

Campbell, William W.: Annals of Tryon County or the Border Warfare of New York during the Revolution. pp. 269. p. 121 et seq. 12 mo. J. & J. Harper, New York. 1831.

The stream rises in the center of Sullivan County and flows to the Delaware. The falls are said to be from sixty to eighty feet in four cascades. (Hist. Sul. Co.) Another writer...

Sachus (Sachoes) 30 Sacondaga 184 Sacrahung 31 Sacut 88 Sagabon-ock 85 Sag-Harbor 85 Saghtekoos 83 Sahkaqua 54 Sam's Point 146 Sanckhaick 65 Sankagag 177 Sankapogh 125 Saponicka...