In Mohawk Country : Early Narratives of a Native People

by Snow, Dean R.; Gehring, Charles T.; Starna, William A.

• ISBN13: 9780815604105
• ISBN10: 0815604106
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

Narratives written from 1634 to 1810 by settlers describing their interactions with the Mohawk Valley's Iroquois inhabitants.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	xvii
A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635	1	(13)
Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert
Of Incursions by the Hiroquois, and the Captivity of Father Jogues, 1642-1643	14	(8)
Barthelemy Vimont
Of the Deliverance of Father Isaac Jogues, and His Arrival in France, 1643-1644	22	(7)
Barthelemy Vimont
Novum Belgium and an Account of Rene Goupil, 1644	29	(9)
Isaac Jogues
A Short Account of the Mohawk Indians, 1644	38	(9)
Johannes Megapolensis, Jr.
Two Letters of Bressani, 1644	47	(9)
Francesco Giuseppe Bressani
Of the Mission of the Martyrs, Begun in the Country of the Iroquois, 1646	56	(6)
Jerome Lalemant
Voyages of Pierre Esprit Radisson, 1651-1654	62	(31)
Pierre Esprit Radisson
Of the Capture and Deliverance of Father Joseph Poncet, 1653	93	(11)
Francois-Joseph le Mercier
Joseph-Antoine Poncet de la Riviere
Description of New Netherland, 1653	104	(27)
Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck
Diederik Goedhuys
Of the Condition of the Country of the Iroquois, and of Their Cruelties, 1659-1660	131	(5)
Jerome Lalement
Letter from a Frenchman in Captivity Among the Agnieronons, to a Friend of His at Three Rivers, 1660-1661	136	(3)
Jerome Lalemant
Notable Embassy of the Iroquois, 1663-1664	139	(5)
Jerome Lalemant
Of the Iroquois Country, and the Routes Leading Thither, 1664-1665	144	(5)
Francois-Joseph le Mercier
Of the Mission of Sainte Marie Among the Iroquois of Agnie, 1667-1668	149	(12)
Francois-Joseph le Mercier
Of the Mission of the Martyrs in the Country of the Anniez, or Lower Iroquois, 1668-1669	161	(8)
Francois-Joseph le Mercier
Of the Mission of the Martyrs in the Country of the Agnie, or of the Lower Iroquois, 1669-1670	169	(7)
Jean Pierron
Of the Mission of Sanite Marie Among the Lower Iroquois and of the Mission of Gandaouague, or of Saint Pierre, in the Country of Agnie, 1672-1673	176	(9)
Jean de Lamberville
Of the Agnie Mission, 1673-1674	185	(3)
Claude Dablon
Observations of Wentworth Greenhalgh in a Journey from Albany to the Indians Westward, 1677	188	(5)
Wentworth Greenhalgh
Journal of a Voyage to New York and a Tour in Several of the American Colonies in 1679-1680, 1680	193	(28)
Jasper Danckaerts
A Narrative of an Attempt Made by the French of Canada upon the Mohaques Country, 1692	221	(4)
Nicholas Bayard
Report on the French Attack on the Mohawks, 1693	225	(6)
Peter Schuyler
An Account of the Military Operations in Canada Against the English and the Iroquois, Since the Month of November 1692, 1693	231	(7)
Jean Bochart de Champigny
Sieur de Noroy et de Verneuil
A Journey to Onondaga, 1750	238	(4)
Christian Daniel Claus
Conrad Weiser
Helga Doblin
William A. Starna
Description of the Country Between Oswego and Albany---1757, 1757	242	(8)
Anonymous
Journal of Warren Johnson, 1760-1761	250	(24)
Warren Johnson
Journal of Joseph Bloomfield, 1776	274	(18)
Joseph Bloomfield
Visit to Schenectady, 1780	292	(3)
Francois-Jean de Beauvoir
Marquis de Chastellux
Diary of Peter Sailly on a Journey in America in the Year 1784, 1784	295	(5)
Peter Sailly
Journey to the Oneidas, 1784	300	(18)
Francois Marbois
Travels of a Gentleman from Milan, 1790	318	(16)
Paolo Andreani
Elisabeth Ruthman
Journal of Travels, Principally by Water, from Albany to the Seneca Lake, 1791	334	(13)
Elkanah Watson
Dr. Belknap's Tour to Oneida, 1796	347	(10)
Jeremy Belknap
Visit to the Falls of Niagara, 1800	357	(5)
John Maude
On a Mission Through the Mohawk and Black River Country, in the Year 1802, 1802	362	(8)
John Taylor
Journal of Trip from New Jersey to Oneida Lake, 1802	370	(12)
Friedrich Rohde
Charles T. Gehring
De Witt Clinton's Private Canal Journal, 1810	382	(19)
De Witt Clinton
References Cited	401