Identifier: americapicturesq02cook (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel, 1842-1910
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : John C. Winston
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ettled in the village on the Housatonic,where the Puritans found them. They gladly re-ceived Sergeants ministry, and he baptized over ahundred of them, translating the New Testament andpart of the Old into their language. When Edwardscame, in 1751, there were one hundred and fifty In-dian families, and but six English families. Manywere in the Continental army in the Revolution, anda company of these Indians won distinction in thebattle of White Plains, near New York. They weredispersed in later days, some going to Western NewYork and others to the far West; but on the slopeof a hill adjoining the river remains their old grave-yard, a rugged weather-worn shaft surmounting astone pile to mark it. Upon the green village main street is Edwardslittle old wooden house, having three small windowsabove the ponderous door. It is now called EdwardsHall, and a granite obelisk out in front, erected byhis descendants in 1871, preserves the memory ofthe great divine. Over opposite is the venerable
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TUE T^SW YORK STOCKBRIDGE AND ITS INDIANS. 257 Sedgwick Mansion, the home of the famous Sedgwickfamily. Farther up the street is the Cemetery,where the most interesting feature is the enclosureset apart for their tombs, the graves being arrangedin circles around the central tomb of Judge The doreSedgwick, the founder. He was a native of Hart-ford, born in 1746, migrated to Sheffield in Berkshire,and finally settled at Stockbridge after the Revolu-tion, becoming one of the leading statesmen of NewEngland, prominent in the old Federal party, Memberof Congress and Senator from Massachusetts, andSpeaker of the House. He was subsequently madeJudge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, dying inoffice in 1813. His children and descendants sur-round his grave, among them his daughter, the dis-tinguished authoress, Catherine Maria Sedgwick,born at Stockbridge in 1789, who died in 1867. A few miles to the southeast is Monument Moun-tain, the Indian Fishers Nest, one of the mostcurious and attract

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