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Title: The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Reid, W. Max (William Max), 1839-1911
Subjects: Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.) -- History
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r was an uncle of Walter N. Butler ofCherry Valley massacre notoriety, and was killed at the battleof Lake George, September 8, 1755. Who has not experienced a desire for a stroll in the countryduring the bright and beautiful October weather so commonin this latitude ? It seems to come with added force on somebright Sunday morning, and one longs to breathe the fresh airof the fields and the odors of the forest, and perhaps lookthrough nature up to natures God. One Sunday morning I yielded to such a desire, and witha comrade boarded the trolley for Fort Johnson, and beingrowed across the river by a lone fisherman, we were soonon our tramp into the Mohawks country. Our road lay alongthe canal, with its steam propellers belching forth dense blacksmoke and pushing and pulling two, four, or five heavily ladencanal boats; on our left was the West Shore Railroad, withits long trains of rattling, rumbling cars, and screeching, his-sing locomotives, while to the right, across the Mohawk, could
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z Xo p in a 0 ^^ilC LIBRAR ■^y. -^OH, L£NOX AND Canagera, One of the Mohawks Castles 305 be seen and heard endless trains of freight and passengers,passing east and west. The road we were travelling was probably the Indian trailfollowed by Jan Wemp (Wemple) and his companions, enroute for the Tiononderoga, to construct Queen AnnesChapel and Fort Hunter. Leaving the massive masonry ofthe two locks, which are long enough to admit two canalboats at one time, we pass the pleasant home of the Mac-Gregors, and in due time arrive at the home of Mrs. CorneliusWemple and Emiory and Gilbert Wemple, sons of Corneliusand grandsons of Ephraim, spoken of above as having in-herited the westerly half of the flats of Jan or John Wemp,which name is now changed to Wemple. We can imagineJan and his companions, resting at the Indian spring by thewayside and drinking of its cooling water, and perhaps at thatearly date casting his eye over the flats with a desire for pos-session. The Wemple homestead of

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