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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Esopus War, the. (search)
Esopus War, the. There had been a massacre by the Indians of Dutch settiers at Esopus (now Kingston, N. Y.) in 1655. The settlers had fled to Manhattan for security, but had been persuaded by Stuyvesant to return to their farms, where they built a compact village for mutual protection. Unfortunately, some Indians, who had been helping the Dutch in their harvests in the summer of 1658, became noisy in a drunken rout, and were fired upon by the villagers. This outrage caused fearful retaliation. The Indians desolated the farms, and murdered the people in isolated houses. The Dutch put forth their strength to oppose the barbarians, and the Esopus War continued until 1664 intermittingly. Some Indians, taken prisoners, were sent to Curacoa and sold as slaves. The anger of the Esopus Indians was aroused, and, in 1663, the village of Wiltwyck, as the Esopus village was called, was almost totally destroyed. Stuyvesant was there at the time, holding a conference with the Indians i
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Furman, Richard 1755-1825 (search)
Furman, Richard 1755-1825 Clergyman; born in Esopus, N. Y., in 1755. While still a child his father removed to South Carolina. He became a minister in the Baptist Church before he was of age, and was such an ardent patriot during the Revolution that Lord Cornwallis offered a reward for his capture. Mr. Furman was a member of the first constitutional convention of South Carolina, and president of the first convention representing all the Baptist societies in America. Furman University in South Carolina was named in his honor. He died in Charleston, S. C., in 1825.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steamboats, Hudson River (search)
y morning at nine o'clock the North River, do., every Tuesday morning at nine o'clock. prices of passage. From New York to Verplanck's Point, $2; West Point, $2.50 Newburgh, $3 ; Wappinger's Creek, $3.25; Poughkeepsie, $3.50; Hyde Park, $4; Esopus, $4.25; Red Hook, $4.50; Catskill, $5; Hudson, $5; Coxsackie, $5.50; Kinderhook, $5.75; Albany, $7. From Albany to Kinderhook, $1.50; Coxsackie, $2; Hudson, $2: Catskill, $2.25; Red Hook, $2.75; Esopus, $3; Hyde Park, $3.25; Poughkeepsie, $3.5Esopus, $3; Hyde Park, $3.25; Poughkeepsie, $3.50; Wappinger's Creek, $4; Newburgh, $4.25; West Point, $4.75; Verplanck's Point, $5.25; New York, $7. All other way passengers to pay at the rate of $1 for every twenty miles. No one can be taken on board and put on shore, however short the distance, for less than $1. Young persons from two to ten years of age to pay half price. Children under two years, one-fourth price. Servants who use a berth, twothirds price: half price if none. The invention of the steamboat. The following h
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
as Chambers, a farmer, with othersfrom near the present city of Troy, coming to Esopus, now Kingston, are the first settlers of Ulster county......1652 Flatbush seringing any Quaker into the province to be confiscated.] Village laid out at Esopus (Kingston)......May 31, 1658 French are obliged to abandon their colonizing urchase of Schenectady Flats......July 27, 1661 Municipal charter granted to Esopus, now to be called Wiltwyck (Indian Village)......1661 Curtius returns to Hol.....1661 John Browne arrested for harboring Quakers......1662 Village of Esopus attacked by Indians and partly burned......June, 1663 Browne banished. Goesaptured in New York Harbor during spring of......1669 Name Kingston given to Esopus......Sept. 25, 1669 La Salle, Dollier, and Galinee explore lakes Ontario andew Orange.] Anthony Colve appointed governor......August, 1673 Albany and Esopus reduced......August, 1673 French build Fort Frontenac on Lake Ontario......1