Largely a history of the upper Susquehanna valley.

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Covers: Indians and Fur Traders; Missionaries and the French War, 1650-1769; Land Titles and Pioneers, 1679-1774; The Border Wars Begun, 1776-1777; Overthrow of the Frontier, 1777-1778; The Sullivan Expedition, 1779; Last Years of the War, 1780-1783; and The Restoration of the Frontier, 1782-1800. H0409HB - $37.00

Excerpt from The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars With Indians and Tories, Its Missionary Schools, Pioneers and Land Titles, 1614 1800 Reasons for writing this history may in some numbers be cited. About one hundred and sixty years before the Revolution - earlier, in fact, than the landing of the Pilgrims - these lands had been visited by white men. Traders had travelled along the Indian trails of the Mohawk and Susquehanna valleys periodically all through that century and a half, while for at least a quarter of a century before the Revolution, missionaries had engaged in constant labor on the Susquehanna. By the missionaries, schools and churches were founded, and a beneficent and fruitful work was well under way when the war put a sudden end to peaceful activities. The lands on the Susquehanna for a considerable time were the frontier of the province of New York, the Unadilla River, one of the tributaries of the larger stream, forming another part of that boundary line between the Indians and the English, which was established by the treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768. Beyond this line no settlements were made until after the war, when the white man secured his first titles in that fertile region of Central and Western New York. During the Revolution the upper Susquehanna became a base of operations from which the Indians and Tories, who had fled from the Mohawk and Schoharie valleys, found their way back into the settled parts of New York, and under Joseph Brant, Colonel John Butler, Walter H. Butler, and Sir John Johnson wrought their destruction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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