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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cayuga Indians, (search)
Tradition says that at the formation of the confederacy, Hi-a-wat-ha said to the Cayugas: You, Cayugas, a people whose habitation is the Dark Forest, and whose home is everywhere, shall be the fourth nation, because of your superior cunning in hunting. They inhabited the country about Cayuga Lake in central New York, and numbered about 300 warriors when first discovered by the French at the middle of the seventeenth century. The nation was composed of the families of the Turtle, Bear, and Wolf, like the other cantons, and also those of the Beaver, Snipe, Heron, and Hawk. They were represented in the congress of the league by ten sachems. Through Jesuit missionaries the French made fruitless attempts to Christianize the Cayugas and win them over to the French interest, but found them uniformly enemies. During the Revolutionary War the Cayugas were against the colonists. They fought the Virginians at Point Pleasant in 1774. They hung upon the flank and rear of the army under Sul
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delaware Indians, (search)
family claim to have come from the west with the Minquas, to whom they became vassals. They also claimed to be the source of all the Algonquians, and were styled grandfathers. The Delawares comprised three powerful families (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf), and were known as Minseys, or Munsees, and Delawares proper. The former occupied the northern part of New Jersey and a portion of Pennsylvania, and the latter inhabited lower New Jersey, the banks of the Delaware below Trenton, and the whole vattled in Kansas, where missions were established among them, and they rapidly increased in the arts of civilized life. In the Civil War, the Delawares furnished 170 soldiers for the National army. Having acquired land from the Cherokees in the Indian Territory, they now occupy the Cooweescoowee and Delaware districts; numbered 754 in 1900; are considered the traders and business men of the North American Indians; and still keep up their totemic distinction of Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf families.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Pennsylvania, (search)
ts, and a government by the people established.] State governors. Thomas WhartonPresident (died in office 1778）1777 George BryanActing. Joseph ReedPresident1778 William MoorePresident1781 John DickinsonPresident1782 Benjamin FranklinPresident1785 Thomas MifflinGovernor From 1790, under the new State constitution, the executive has been termed governor instead of president.1788 Thomas McKean1799 Simon Snyder1808 William Findley1817 Joseph Hiester1820 J. Andrew Shulze1823 George Wolf1829 Joseph Ritner1837 David R. Porter1839 Francis R. ShunkResigned, 18481845 William F. JohnsonActing1849 William Bigler1852 James Pollock1855 William F. Packer1858 Andrew G. Curtin1861 John W. Geary1867 John F. Hartranft1873 State governors—Continued. Henry M. Hoyt1879 Robert E. Pattison1883 James A. Beaver1887 Robert E. Pattison1891-1895 Daniel H. Hastings1895-1899 William A. Stone1899-1903 United States Senators. Name.No. of Congress.Term. William Maclay1st to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Seneca Indians, (search)
Tradition says that at the formation of the great confederacy Hiawatha said to them, You, Senecas, a people who live in the open country, and possess much wisdom, shall be the fifth nation, because you understand better the art of raising corn and beans and making cabins. The Dutch called them Sinnekaas, which the English spelled Senecas, and they were denominated the Western Door of the Long House—the confederacy. They were divided into five clans—viz., the Turtle, Snipe, Hawk, Bear, and Wolf, and were represented in the great council or congress by seven sachems. There was a small family on the borders of the Niagara River, called Neuters, whose domain formed the western boundary of the Seneca territory; also the Erikes, or Eries, south of Lake Erie. On the east they joined the Senecas. By the conquest of the Hurons, most of the Neuters, the Series, and Andastes (or Susquehannas) were incorporated with the Senecas. The French Jesuits began a mission among them in 1657; and