Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 12, 2025
Upon their arrival at the Genesee river, they crossed over, scoured the country for some distance on the river, burnt the Indian villages on the Genesee flats, and destroyed all their corn and other means of subsistence. The bodies of Lieut. Boyd and Parker were found and buried near the bank of Beard's creek, under a bunch of wild plum-trees, on the road, as it now runs, from Moscow to Geneseo.
During the hours of slumber I was continually being startled by frightful dreams, sometimes I thought I saw a monstrous serpent as large as a log stretched across the road between Rochester and the Genesee River; at another I thought myself in the air so high that I could have a full view of the shores of Lake Ontario, and they were alive with snakes; and then I saw a large bird like an eagle, rise up out of the water and fly toward the south.
Looking out over the flat snowy fields toward the curving Genesee River and the church steeples in Rochester, Susan often thought wistfully of the blue hills around Center Falls and Battenville and of the good times she had had there.
If I had known how to read and write I should have got ahead of him." Valley of the Genesee Indian misgivings Mill yard Effort to obtain their land Council at Big Tree Coming of the Wadsworths Indian villages Refusal to sell Discussion between Red Jacket and Thomas Morris Breaking up of the Council. The valley of the Genesee was a favorite resort of the Indian.
There was a time when the Kah-kwahs' branch of that nation made a challenge to the Seneca nation, another very powerful nation having their settlement on the east side of the Genesee river, to play a game of ball, which the Senecas readily accepted and a day was appointed; accordingly, the combat ensued, and was a hotly contested game; but the Senecas finally came out victorious.
Canandaigua at an early day Facts in the early settlement of Bloomfield Indian Council Its object Indian parade Indian dress Opening of Council Speeches Liberal offers of the government Mr. Savary's Journal Treaty concluded Account of Red Jacket by Thomas Morris. Canandaigua at an early day was the objective point for all who were seeking what was called the Genesee country.
Shea has shown their identity with the Susquehannocks of the English, and the Minquas of the Dutch. See Hist. Mag., II. 294. In Central New York, stretching east and west from the Hudson to the Genesee, lay that redoubted people who have lent their name to the tribal family of the Iroquois, and stamped it indelibly on the early pages of American history.
"I certainly do, Sadie, or I would not have asked you," Katherine heartily responded, and now feeling very sure that she had done a wise thing, for she was convinced that the girl's "wretchedness" had proceeded from an entirely different cause than a choice between a European tour and a sojourn with an "old maid in Genesee County."
By practising in that way I retained it till I came to Genesee flats, where I soon became acquainted with English people with whom I have been almost daily in the habit of conversing. My sisters were diligent in teaching me their language; and to their great satisfaction I soon learned so that I could understand it readily, and speak it fluently.
Its presence as an oily scum on the surface of ponds and streams had long been known, and among the Indians this "rock-oil" was highly appreciated as a vehicle for mixing their wax paint, and for anointing their bodies; in later years it was gathered in a rude way by soaking it up in blankets, and sold at a high price for medicinal purposes only, under the name of Seneca rock oil, Genesee oil, Indian oil, etc.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking