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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names

Ruttenber, E.M. Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names in the Valley of Hudson's River, the Valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware. Published in the Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, Vol. VI. 1906. 327 words

The army moved that dav to Brink's Mills.

SULLIVAN S CAMPAIGN. 93

14. -- Decamped at lo A. M. Passed the Wind Gap and encamped that night within 12 miles of Easton.

15. -- Decamped at 6 o'clock in the morning and arrived at Easton at 2 P. M. Encamped in the Forks of the Delaware on the bank of the Lehigh.

17. -- Our Brigade mustered. The Rev. Parson Evans delivered a discourse^ to the army in the German church.

In the same volume is given a table of distances as traveled by the army from Easton to Genesee Castle, as surveyed by Mr. Lodge, Surveyor to the Western army :

From Easton to Wyoming 65 miles Lackawanna 75 " Quelutinack 82 " Tunkhannock Creek 93 " " Mesupin 102 " " Vanderlip's Farm 107 " " Wyalusing 115 " " Wysaching Creek I29ya " Tioga 145 " Chemung 157 " " Forks at Newtown 165 " " French Catharines, or Evoquagah. . . .i83^/^- " " Condiah, or Appleton 211 " " Outlet of Seneca Lake 222% " " Canadesaco, or Seneca Lake 226 " " Canandaigua 241^'^ '' " Honeoye 255 '' Adjustah 267'/^ " " Gasagularah 274MS " " Genesee Castle 280 "

CONCERNING THE MOHAWKS.

By W. Max Reid.

I am somewhat at a loss to select a name for the subject of this paper. I dare not dignify it by the title of a history of the Mohawks, because a true history of that notable people never has been or never can be written. It is true that " Colden's Five Nations," " Morgan's League of the Iroquois," and Schoolcraft's notes are looked upon as authority on this subject, but Morgan's work is in a great measure legendary and altogether unsatisfying, and the same may be said of Colden and Schoolcraft, although the little that Colden has to say about the Mohawks is accepted as authority as far as it goes.