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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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o north Germany; but the larger numberfound their way to England, and thronged the streets of Lon-don to that extent that they were lodged in warehouses andbarns, and in some instances buildings were erected, while onthe Surrey side of the Thames one thousand tents werepitched, and the generous and charitably disposed people weretaxed to the utmost to provide subsistence for this destitutearmy of immigrants. It became evident to Queen Anne andher advisers that something must be done to find employmentor new homes for the wanderers. About five thousand were ab-sorbed in various employments within the kingdom, whilenearly four thousand were sent over to Ireland, and aboutninety-two families, or in the neighborhood of six hundredpersons, were sent to the Carolinas in charge of a Swiss gentle-man named Christopher de Graffenreid, a native of Berne,who named the settlement Newberne. While the Palatines were yet in London there came toEngland an important delegation from the province of New
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> Q OK O T f-l £ ^^ ■■ ^■ ^ * ^ ^^PUBLIC LIBRARY/ ASTOR, L£NQX AND Immigration and Settlement of Palatines 8i York, consisting of Peter Schuyler, then Mayor of Albany,and Colonel Nicholson, one of Her Majestys officers inAmerica, and five Mohawk sachems. Their mission was tourge the need of more generous measures on the part of thehome government for the defence of the province against theFrench and their allied Indians. The arrival of the sachems, in their barbaric costume, oc-casioned great observation throughout the kingdom. Crowdsfollowed them in the streets, and small pictures of them werewidely sold. The court was in mourning for the Prince ofDenmark, and the Indians were dressed in black underclothes,but a scarlet ingrain cloth mantle was thrown over all othergarments. The English and the Indians alike were delighted with the exhi-bitions. The guards were reviewed for their entertainment, andthey were taken to see plays in the theatres. They were given anaudience by

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