The Mohawk Valley. Its Legends and Its History

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Author(s): W. Max Reid (William Maxwell Reid)
Publisher: Putnam's and Sons
Year: 1901

Language: English
Pages: 475
City: New York, London

I
The Mythical City of Norumbega
II
The Mohawks
Ill—Journal of Arent Van Curler
IV
Schonowe or Schenectady .
V
Immigration and Settlement of the
Palatines
VI
Queen Anne's Chapel ....
Vll
Count Frontenac and the Mohawk
Valley
VIII
Sir William Johnson ....
IX
Guy Park and Fort Johnson
X
In the Old Town of Amsterdam .
XI
The Last Battle between the Mohawks
and Mohicans. The Famous Butler
Mansion
XII

Johnstown, New York
XIII
Some Accounts of the Notorious Butler
Family
XIV

Legend of Mrs. Ross
XV
The Joseph Brant of Romance and of Fact
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XVI—Incidents Relating to the Early History
OF Amsterdam and the Mohawk
Valley 275
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Canagera, One of the Mohawks' Castles 298
XVIII
Early Industries 321
XIX—Old Indian Names and Sites—The Legend
OF Little Falls 344
XX—Canajoharie—The Hills of Florida . 376
XXI
Oriskany 411