Identifier: oldeulsterhistor1909king (find matches)
Title: Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Publisher: Kingston, N.Y. : B.M. Brink
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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the famous American portrait painter who painted
the celebrated portrait of Governor George Clinton in
the City Hall, New York, which was reproduced in
this magazine, Vol. IV., page 69. The Catskill House
card bears upon its back a laundry memorandum in a
handwriting similar to that of Trumbull, which reads
thus:
" ^Pd Eunice Short 22^d Sep^t 1826. $2.—
M^rs Short 29th 5.—
to Wash 6 Shirts & Cravats 7 Handkf^s
5 p^r Stockings 3 Vests
Ipr Drawers 2 Night Caps
to Eunice 22 Sep^t 1826
30 pieces returned 29^th Sep^t 1826 by M^rs Short"

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SOME OF OUR READERS wish to know the meanin
gof the names Esopus and Ponckhockie. According to
the late E. M. Ruttenber, the authority on Indian
names in Eastern New York, Esopus means " small
river." It is derived from es, small and sepu, river.
The Indians of the valley of the Hudson were of
Algonquin stock and sepu, or a variant, was used by all
the tribes in speaking of a stream. Ponckhockie is
from a Dutch word, punthoekje," the point of a small
angle.

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The Old Catskill House
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Governor
George Clinton
Twentieth Paper
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DURING the whole of the long war
Governor Clinton could pass no day
in which the valley of the Mohawk
and the highway of Lake Champlain
did not claim his attention and cause
him anxious moments. All through
this year of the treason of Arnold the frontier was rest-
less and savage Indians and still more savage Tories
murdered, scalped and made prisoners of the helpless
patriot settlers. The previous year (1779) had wit-
nessed the vengeance of Sullivan upon those of the
great Iroquois confederacy who had joined the British
and gone upon the war path against helpless women
and children. But that vengeance had scattered the
firebrands instead of extinguishing the fire. The sav-
ages lurked along the outlying settlements eager for
revenge.
With the advent of 1781 it was felt that there had
arrived a crisis in the long struggle. The campaign in
the South had been committed to General Greene.
General Gates, fresh from his victory in the surrender

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