The Mahicans, the Dutch, and the Schodack Islands in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Huey, Paul R.

doi:10.22191/neha/vol22/iss1/7

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“…75 Curiously, there was no mention of a peace having been made with the Iroquois or any other Indians, nor of the conflict involving the Northern Indians. 76 But of great interest is that the English did not think it at all necessary to sit with the Mahicans and forge an agreement similar to those it had with the Iroquois and the Esopus Indians. This was in spite of these Indians' alliance with the Northern Indians, whose war with the Mohawks was of considerable concern to much of New England.…”

Section: Mohawks and Dutchmen Traveling To Pocumtuck Territory In Thementioning

confidence: 98%

“…But since Daniel van Krieckenbeeck, former commis at Fort Orange, involved and engaged these same Manhykans in needless wars with the warlike nation of the Maquaes, their former friends and neighbors, they lost in the beginning their general chief named Monnemin, and subsequently were so hard pressed from time to time, especially by the defeat they suffered in 1629, that they resolved in the years 1630 and 1631 to sell and transfer their said lands with all their rights, jurisdiction and authority to and for the behoof of Kiliaen van Rensselaer. 76 The 1630 and 1631 purchases from several Mahicans, most of whom were identified as "owners and proprietors," excepting one Papsickene (var. ), who was also named a Mahican chief, established the founding land base for the patroonship of Rensselaerswijck.…”

Section: The Dutch Establish a Colony: The Founding Of Rensselaerswijckmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is one of several known phonetic spellings of Mahicans who in the 1750s had gone into Pennsylvania with the Moravians, however, appear to have remained where they were. 76 The main settlements in the upper valley, almost all of which were formed of small farmsteads and hamlets strung along the river, began at Unadilla, at the time located just west of what is today Sidney, New York, and continued downriver through Cunnahunta, Onaquaga, Otsiningo, Chugnutts, Owego, and thence to Tioga, at Athens, Pennsylvania (Map 9). Mingling with the residents of these communities were the six nation Iroquois, who themselves had become somewhat scattered, their once compact, fortified villages of longhouses replaced by smaller bark and hewn board-covered cabins placed along the waterways of their homelands.…”

Section: Life At Stockbridgementioning

confidence: 99%

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From homeland to new land: a history of Mahican Indians, 1600-1830

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This is a story, one of the many that has been or could be told about the Mahicans, an Indian people who lived along the tidal waters they called Muhheakunnuk, today's Hudson River. It spans the years between 1600 and 1830, beginning with the accepted first contact with European interlopers and ending with the removal of these Natives from New York State, their numbers having been augmented by Indians of Munsee and later other Delaware heritage. No thought was given to writing a definitive history of the Mahicans, an impossible task no matter the intention. As Francis Jennings has put it, the goal for historians should be to open the field rather than attempt to close it. 1 The focus here is instead on the related themes of space-in the now common idiom, cultural landscapes-and movements through time, both of which are firmly rooted in historical context. Thus, the first objective is to situate the Mahicans in their homeland when it is most reasonably and securely possible, from about the middle decades of the seventeenth into the eighteenth century. The second is to trace the activities of Mahican communities as they sought to address their own needs and interests-economic, political, and otherwise; engage with Native friends and foes; and equally important, deal with the everencroaching and soon dominant European presence. Arguably the most disruptive, tangled, yet transformative period of Mahican history took place in the years between 1630 and 1730. Then, two decades before the violence and disruptions of the mid-eighteenth-century French and Indian War, came a general coalescence of the Mahicans at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and at the end of the American Revolution, a move to New Stockbridge, in the heart of Oneida country. Denied any possibility of returning to their homeland, the final destination of these Natives, reached by about 1830, was Wisconsin. It is no surprise that most of what is known of the Mahicans is derived from the records of colonizers. Absent any other mention, the first to approach their country was Henry Hudson and his crew aboard the Halve Maen in early fall 1609. Within a few short years the Dutch colony of New Netherland took shape, its farmsteads and homes centered chiefly around Manhattan in the south and the upper reaches of the Hudson River in the north. Fort Orange, at present-day Albany, was built in 1624, several years after Fort Nassau, a fur trading post on the river, had fallen into disrepair, the result of spring floods. Six years later the patroonship of Rennselaerswijck was created, the vast communities in terms of society and the routine of everyday life anytime in the eighteenth century. Instead, the story turns decidedly to the avarice and duplicity of the governments of colonial Massachusetts and then the state of New York, attended by missionary zeal and interference, land loss, and relocation, all amidst the occasional internal dispute. The documentary record that remains from just prior to, and then through the turn of the nineteenth century until removal, is o...

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Section: Mohawks and Dutchmen Traveling To Pocumtuck Territory In Thementioning

confidence: 98%

Section: The Dutch Establish a Colony: The Founding Of Rensselaerswijckmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Life At Stockbridgementioning

confidence: 99%

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