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Identifier: historictownsofm02powe (find matches)
Title: Historic towns of the middle states
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Powell, Lyman P. (Lyman Pierson), b. 1866, ed
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Middle Atlantic States Middle Atlantic States -- History
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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enectady. He lookedabout for associates in the purchase of the landsand their settlement, and sifted out fourteen.He applied to the Director General or Gover-nor of the province, Peter Stu)vesant—whosereal qualities and worth and those of his goodsubjects the pen of Irving has replaced withthe genial travesties of his enduring carica-ture,—and obtained his reluctant consent tothe purchase. He then applied to the Indianchiefs. They too were reluctant. Schonowewas the site of one of their most ancient castles.It had long been their favorite home. Theirtraditions covered man)- generations, but notradition reached back to their first coming.Still they well remembered that Hiawatha hadlived here, two centuries or more before. Hiawatha, the chief, of whom the GreatSpirit was an ancestor, and whose wisdom,goodness and valor far surpassed that of othermen, was the founder of the confederacy of theFive Nations. He devoted his long life to thegood of his people, teaching them to live nobler
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Schenectady 83 and better, and finally was borne in the fleshto the Happy Hunting Grounds. Longfellow-sings of Hiawatha with no stint of poetic li-cense, but his harmonious numbers do not sur-pass the Indian estimate of his qualities. Nodoubt there was such a man, of exceptionalwisdom, valor and influence, and that he dis-appeared without being known to have died.Around his memory tradition, employing thefigurative language of the Indians, accumu-lated myths and magnified them.^ \an Curler was persistent, and in the end theIndians could not find it in their hearts to den)-their very good friend, and the deed wasformally executed and delivered at Fort Or-ange, Jul) 2, 1661. The founders entered into possession. TheIndians bade them welcome, and began tomove their wigwams up the valley. It wastheir first step in the many stages of theirunreturning journey toward the setting sun. The writer is indelited to As-que-sent-wah, a member of theOnondaga tribe, an authority upon Indian local lor

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