History of the state of New York, for the use of common schools, academies, normal and high schools, and other seminaries of instruction . North Carolina, and at a subsequent period nearly exterminatedthe Cherokees and Catawbas in South Carolina, Georgia, Ala-bama, and Tennessee. 13. In 1714 they were joined by the Tuscaroras of NorthCarolina, and from thenceforth assumed the title of the SixNations. Tliey imiformly adhered to the British interests, or Corlear as they termed that nation, against Yonondio, orthe French ; and on the revolt of the Americans in the Revolu-tionary struggle inflicte
History of the state of New York, for the use of common schools, academies, normal and high schools, and other seminaries of instruction . North Carolina, and at a subsequent period nearly exterminatedthe Cherokees and Catawbas in South Carolina, Georgia, Ala-bama, and Tennessee. 13. In 1714 they were joined by the Tuscaroras of NorthCarolina, and from thenceforth assumed the title of the SixNations. Tliey imiformly adhered to the British interests, or Corlear as they termed that nation, against Yonondio, orthe French ; and on the revolt of the Americans in the Revolu-tionary struggle inflicted the most dire calamities on their for-mer friends at Wyoming in Pennsylvania, and at Cherry Valleyand the Mohawk settlements in New York. 14. At the period of the first settlement of New York, theaggregate number of this confederacy amounted to about fortythousand. Not more than seven thousand remain in existence,and of these a small remnant only is now to be found in theState. The strawbcny of tlie Great Spirit. — Conquests of the Iroquois. — Ac-cession of the Tuscaroias. — Fidelitj to the English. — Comparative Minuits Purchase of i\Ianliattan Island. SECOND PERIOD. DISCOVERIES AND SETTLEMENTS.— THE DUTCH GO VERNMENTS. CHAPTER I. Discovert of the Hudson Rivrr.—First Settlement of theProvince of New Netherlands. 1524. 1. The first Europeans who landed on the soil of New Yorkwere probably the crew of a Frendi vessel under the com-mand of JoHX DE Verrazzaxo, a Florenthie, in the serviceof Francis I. of France. From the journals of the voyage pre-served by him, it appears that about the middle of March, 1524,he arrived on the American coast in North Carolina, from whence,after proceeding south as far as Georgia, he sailed northward tothe latitude of 4F, where he entered a harbor, which, from his John de Verrazzano. DISCOVERIES AND SETTLEMENTS. 15 description, Tvas probably that of Xew York. He seems to haveremained there about fifteen days, visited by the
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