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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. 252 words

Ingalsbe, of Sandy Hill, \viho interested himself in my search for data, and feel myself under obligations to the SchnylerviUe Standard and to the Glen Falls Times for gratuitously publishing my request for information. Commitnications. From the letters relating to the subject in hand which I have received, I glean the following. I might say that the discrepancy which appears in the descriptions of Dr. Olark's person may be accounted for by the diflferent ages and conditions of healtih in which he is best remembered by the several Observers : From Dr. Albert Mott, Cohoes : " The location of the Union Meeting House was at Reynold's Corners, about four or five hundred feet from the corner, directly east. The burying ground was north and across the road from the meeting house." From Rev. Dr. Jos. E. King, Fort Edward: "In 1858 tfie old church (Union Meeting House) was filled, to enjoy tihe commemorative exercises of the 50th year since the origin of the temperance cause, and I heard Hon. Judge McKean, of Saratoga, address the congregation. There was singing, prayer, a poem by Lura Boies, &c." Statement of Judge Lyman H. Northrup, of Sandy Hill, w<ho remembers Dr. Clark : " He always carried upon his countenance a mild, genial, pleasant expression ; dressed with neatness, and appeared to be a good sort of a fellow, and exhibited not; at all that asperity which we associate in our minds with the active reformer."

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