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Title: The Wallkill Valley in art and story
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Wallkill Valley Farmers' Association
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Publisher: Walden, N.Y. : Wallkill Valley Farmers' Association
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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oom from the chimney to the window sills. On it is s till chalked up a genuine account of a 11 the chimney is a closet which might easily escape notice and which, itis said, was i mone) drawn. Mi,Mr are two other rooms on the lower floor which were used as living . and winch were large and commodious tor a house of that time. The family rooms on the Size; and the heavy beams and slanting ceilings give them a truly colonial appearance. g ol the movement which resulted in the purchase of the house this winter, was made in il his recent death, the late Edmund Elting was an earnest and prominent worker in the matter, s<-tvin. • ••. in the capacity ol secretary. rs ol the society are: President, Ralph LeFevre; First Vice-President, Jesse Elting;M I rreasurer, lacob M. Hasbrouck. The trustees of the society are Louis Bevier, A.G VI Sharpe, Irving l Itlng, l rank Hasbrouck, Joseph E. Hasbrouck, Jesse Elting, Jacob LeFevre,-solum..11 DuBois, Abram D. Broadhead and Jacob M. Hasbrouck.
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I HI III «.l I NOT .MEMORIAL HOUSE NEW PALTZ, N. Y. JO Joseph Brant, the Chief of the Mohawks, who command-ed at the Battle of MinisinL BY HARRISON W. NANNY. JOSEPH BRANT—TAYENDANEGEA is a household name in Orange county, and he who bore it looms a darklurid figure against the background of our Revolutionary history. A pure blooded Mohawk, his education andtraining was had in the schools of the white man. In the fierce warfare which England waged to coerce her re-bellious colonies into obedience, his part has been much misunderstood. He was never, in any sense of theword, a border ruffian, nor is he to be reckoned of the ilk of those who, within the memory of men hardly beyondmiddle age, made the term a reproach in the Kansas-Missouri trouble, just prior to the Civil War. On the contrary Brant was a Christian and a member of the Episcopal Church and aided in the transla-tion of the Prayer Book, the Acts of the Apostles and Catechism into the Mohawk tongue. One of the earliestrecord

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