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Identifier: oldnewyorkfronti01hals (find matches)
Title: The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis Whiting, 1851-1919. 4n
Subjects: New York (State) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 New York (State) -- History Revolution, 1775-1783 Susquehanna River Valley -- History
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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na takes its rise.Colden, in 173 8, referred to it in similar terms. TheMohawk chief Abraham, in 1745, described certainlands to William Johnson as lying at the head ofSusquehanna Lake, and an Onondaga orator atJohnson Hall, in 1765, called it Cherry ValleyLake. In letters written from the lake in 1765, in 1880 from the printing-office of John L. Sawyer, of Cherry Valley.Judge Campbell was the father of the late Douglas Campbell, author ofThe Puritan in Holland, England and America, published in 1892.Judge Campbell wrote his Annals while studying law in Cherry Valley.He occupied a room in the Cherry Valley Academy, afterward convertedinto a hotel, and burned in July, 1894. In that building, in the summerof 1892, the author had the pleasure of meeting his widow. Of all booksdevoted to the early history of the Susquehanna Valley, Campbells An-nals, the first important one to be published, is perhaps first in intrinsiccharm. Stones work is largely devoted to other parts of the country.21
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O c U 1 u ™ o c INDIAN VILLAGES missionaries called it Otsego Lake, which is perhapsthe earliest use of the name on record. On theAugsburg map of the province, dated 1777, oc-curs the form Lake Assega, which would implythat the name had then found official acceptance.Excellent hunting and fishing were here to be ob-tained. The first settlers on the site of Coopers-town found arrow-heads and stone hatchets in greatabundance. The apple-trees were of large size.Cooper thought the place had been more or less fre-quented by Indian traders for a century before theregular settlement began. The English early rec-ognized the Susquehanna as a gate-way to the South.In 1721 the King was advised to erect a fort nearwhere the river flows out of the lake. Remains of ancient villages on the river at points*below Cooperstown have often been discovered.Small relics in considerable numbers have been pre-served in private hands. Perhaps the largest col-lection ever made was the one destroyed in theOneo

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