. Summer homes and rambles on the picturesque Erie .. . d there is anair of pastoral ease about it that at once attracts the visitor. Thename Cochecton is the modern rendering of the Indian wordCush-e-tunk. All this region was explored by whites as early as1687. In that year Governor Dongan desired authority fromthe committee of trade of New York to erect a Campayne fortupon the Delaware river in4i° 40 (the present site of Cochec-lon), to preserve the beaver trade of the country and protect thebeaver hunters from the hostility of the French. It was fromthis point also that the possessions of W
. Summer homes and rambles on the picturesque Erie .. . d there is anair of pastoral ease about it that at once attracts the visitor. Thename Cochecton is the modern rendering of the Indian wordCush-e-tunk. All this region was explored by whites as early as1687. In that year Governor Dongan desired authority fromthe committee of trade of New York to erect a Campayne fortupon the Delaware river in4i° 40 (the present site of Cochec-lon), to preserve the beaver trade of the country and protect thebeaver hunters from the hostility of the French. It was fromthis point also that the possessions of William Penn extendedwestward to the Susquehanna. The great river flat at Cochec-ton was once the site of an important Indian village, to whichtrails led from all parts of the country. Here the savages froma wide area of territory met to observe their ancient they burnt the white dog, held their green-corn dances,performed marriage ceremonies, and played their favorite , according to tradition, lived the great Indian sage, Tarn-. anend or Tamany, and the flats are yet known as St. leminiscences of more than ordinary interest clusterabout Cochecton, and near by, on the Pennsylvania side of theriver, the first settlement in Pennsylvania under the Connecticuttitle, as opposed to Penns, was made in 1757. Here somebloody contests occurred between these settlers and the adher-ents of Penn, but descendants of the first comers still occupymuch of the land then taken up. The first connection ever madebetween the Upper Delaware and Susquehanna valleys was bya trail from Cochecton through the present county of Wayne,in Pennsylvania, to the Indian village Capouse, now Scranton,and thence to Wyoming. Subsequently a wagon road was cutfrom the Hudson river to Cochecton, and then followed theabove-mentioned trail to Wyoming—the first road ever built fromthe Hudson to the Susquehanna. The settlers at Cochectonwere frequently attacked by the Indians, a
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