Annals of Tryon County, Or, The Border Warfare of New York, During the Revolution |
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afterward Albany American arms army arrived attack battle body British Burgoyne Butler called Campbell Canada Capt Cherry Valley Clinton Colonel colony command commenced committee Continental Creek death Decamped defense destroyed detachment dians district Dunlop encamped enemy English fire Fort Edward Fort Schuyler French friends frontier Gansevoort garrison George Clinton German Flats Governor ground Guy Johnson Harper Herkimer honor hundred immediately Indians and Tories inhabitants James Clinton Joseph Brant killed lake land Leger letter liberty Lindesay lives M'Kean massacre ment miles militia Mohawk River morning Niagara night officers Oneida ordered Oswego passed persons prisoners province regiment resolution retreat returned Samuel Samuel Dunlop savages scalps Schenectady Schoharie Schoharie Creek Schuyler Senecas sent settlement Sir John Johnson Sir William Johnson Six Nations soldiers Susquehanna taken Tioga tion tomahawk took town tribe troops Tryon County village warriors whole Willet woods wounded Wyoming York
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Page 17 - TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight! Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Page 220 - With all his howling desolating band — These eyes have seen their blade and burning pine Awake at once, and silence half your land. Red is the cup they drink ; but not with wine : Awake, and watch to-night, or see no morning shine...
Page 79 - ... the completest system of tyranny that ever God, in his displeasure, suffered for a time to be exercised over a froward and stubborn generation.
Page 81 - If, notwithstanding these endeavors, and sincere inclinations to effect them, the frenzy of hostility should remain, I trust I shall stand acquitted in the eyes of God and men, in denouncing and executing the vengeance of the state against the wilful outcasts. The messengers of justice and of wrath await them in the field : and devastation, famine, and every concomitant horror, that a reluctant, but indispensable prosecution of military duty must occasion, will bar the way to their return.
Page 274 - FATHER! — We wish you to send these scalps over the water to the Great King, that he may regard them and be refreshed; and that he may see our faithfulness in destroying his enemies, and be convinced that his presents have not been made to ungrateful people.
Page 199 - I could not help taking a more contemplative and extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, from maps and the information of others ; and could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt her favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part...
Page 274 - We know you will send us powder and guns and knives and hatchets; but we also want shirts and blankets. A little white belt." I do not doubt but that your Excellency will think it proper to give some further encouragement to those honest people. The high prices they complain of are the necessary effect of the war.
Page 201 - ... those waves, through coming time, Should roll our names to every clime; Felt we that millions on that shore Should stand, our memory to adore — But no glad vision burst in light, Upon the Pilgrims...
Page 286 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 80 - These are inflicted, by assemblies and committees, who dare to profess themselves friends to liberty, upon the most quiet subjects, without distinction of age or sex, for the sole crime, often for the sole suspicion, of having adhered in principle to the government under which they were born, and to which, by every tie, divine and human, they owe allegiance.