osseruenon

Updated: June 9, 2025

In the morning, they were again placed on the scaffold, where, during this and the two following days, they remained exposed to the taunts of the crowd. The first, and the lowest on the river, was Osseruenon; the second, two miles above, was Andagaron; and the third, Teonontogen: or, as Megapolensis, in his Sketch of the Mohawks, writes the names, Asserue, Banagiro, and Thenondiogo.

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

"The common people," he says, "eat the arms, buttocks, and trunk; but the chiefs eat the head and the heart." At the end of July, he went with a party of Indians to a fishing-place on the Hudson, about twenty miles below Fort Orange. While here, he learned that another war-party had lately returned with prisoners, two of whom had been burned to death at Osseruenon.

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century