The Old New York Frontier

The Old New York Frontier  (1901)  by Francis Whiting Halsey

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The Old New York Frontier

Its Wars with Indians and Tories,
its Missionary Schools, Pioneers and Land Titles
1614 – 1800
by
Francis Whiting Halsey
with maps and illustrations
New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
1901

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These
annals of my birthland
are inscribed to the memory of
Virginia Isabel Forbes
my constant companion in their preparation
through many years:
whose hand wrote and rewrote
more than half these pages.
"But thy eternal summer shall not fade."

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Why this History

• Part 1. Indians and Fur Traders
  • Ch. 1. The Iroquois and the Susquehanna
  • Ch. 2. Indian Villages in the Upper Valley
  • Ch. 3. The Coming of White Men (1614-1740)

• Part 2. Missionaries and the French War (1650-1769)
  • Ch. 1. Jesuits and Church of England Men (1650-1746)
  • Ch. 2. Missionaries from New England (1745–1748)
  • Ch. 3. Gideon Hawley's Coming (1753)
  • Ch. 4. War Interrupts Mr. Hawley's Work (1756)
  • Ch. 5. New Men at Oghwaga (1762-1763)
  • Ch. 6. Pontiac's War and After It (1763-1768)
  • Ch. 7. Last of the Indian Missions (1769-1774)

• Part 3. Land Titles and Pioneers (1679-1774)
  • Ch. 1. William Penn and Sir William Johnson (1679-1766)
  • Ch. 2. The Fort Stanwix Deed, and Patents that Followed It (1768-1770)
  • Ch. 3. The Patent Called Wallace's (1770)
  • Ch. 4. The First Settlers (1720-1722)
  • Ch. 5. Journal of a Tour in 1769

• Part 4. The Border Wars Begun (1776-1777)
  • Ch. 1. Causes that Led to the Wars
  • Ch. 2. Why Brant Came to the Susquehanna
  • Ch. 3. Brant's Arrival at Unadilla
  • Ch. 4. General Herkimer's Conference with Brant
  • Ch. 5. The Battle of Oriskany

• Part 5. Overthrow of the Frontier (1777-1778)
  • Ch. 1. Alarm Among the Settlements
  • Ch. 2. Cobleskill, Springfield, and Wyoming
  • Ch. 3. German Flatts Destroyed
  • Ch. 4. The Burning of Unadilla and Oqhwaga
  • Ch. 5. The Cherry Valley Massacre

• Part 6. The Sullivan Expedition (1779)
  • Ch. 1. General Clinton at Otsego Lake
  • Ch. 2. Brant's Retrun to the Battle of Minisink
  • Ch. 3. General Clinton's Descent of the Susquehanna
  • Ch. 4. Iroquois Civilization Overturned(Parts of pp. 280-283)

• Part 7. Last Years of the War (1780-1783)
  • Ch. 1. Schoharie and the Mohawk Laid Waste
  • Ch. 2. Sir John and Brant Return
  • Ch. 3. Colonel Willet Expels the Invaders
  • Ch. 4. Final War Scenes(Parts of pp. 312-314)
  • Ch. 5. The Iroquois After the War

• Part 8. The Restoration of the Frontier (1782-1800)
  • Ch. 1. Return of the Former Settlers
  • Ch. 2. Men Who Came from New England
  • Ch. 3. Pioneers by Way of Wattle's Ferry
  • Ch. 4. William Cooper, of Cooperstown
  • Ch. 5. Jacob Morris and Tallyrand's Visit
  • Ch. 6. Churches - Father Nash and Others Founded
  • Ch. 7. A Great Highway
  • Ch. 8. Economic Facts of Pioneer Life

• Bibliography, Etc.:
  • Material in Print
  • Manuscripts
  • A Few of the Many
  • A Personal Note

• Index

Illustrations

• Portrait of Joseph Brant, Thayendanegea, Frontspiece

From a large and rare mezzotint of 1779, in the Lenox Library, made from a portrait painted in London by ROMNEY, in 1776.

• An Iroquois Fort, . . . . . . . Part 1, Ch. 1

Believed to have stood on the shore of Onondaga Lake and besieged by CHAMPLAIN in 1615. From Vol. III. of "The Documentary History of the State of New York." The original in CHAMPLAIN's "Voyages." Paris, 1619.

• Council Rock, Otsego Lake, . . . . Part 1, Ch. 2

An ancient Indian rendezvous. From a recent photograph.

• Portrait of Sir William Johnson, . . . Part 1, Ch.3

From a copy in the State Library, at Albany, of an original, formerly owned by Sir JOHN JOHNSON, Sir WILLIAM's son.

Maps

• The Frontier of New York, in the Revolution, . . . . . . Introduction

Compiled by the author.

• Early Land Titles on the Frontier with dates and owners' names, . . End of Volume

Reduced from a map compiled about 1790 by SIMEON DEWITT and printed in Volume I of "The Documentary History of the State of New York."

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1919, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.