Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine . American portrait painter who paintedthe celebrated portrait of Governor George Clinton inthe City Hall, New York, which was reproduced inthis magazine, Vol. IV., page 69. The Catskill Housecard bears upon its back a laundry memorandum in ahandwriting similar to that of Trumbull, which readsthus: Pa Eunice Short 22d Sept ig2$. $ Mrs Short 29th 5.— to Wash 6 Shirts & Cravats 7 Handkf8 5 pr Stockings 3 Vests ipr Drawers 2 Night Caps to Eunice ,22 Sep4 1826 30 pieces returned 29th Sep4 1826 by Mrs Short * + * SOME OF OUR READERS wish to
Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine . American portrait painter who paintedthe celebrated portrait of Governor George Clinton inthe City Hall, New York, which was reproduced inthis magazine, Vol. IV., page 69. The Catskill Housecard bears upon its back a laundry memorandum in ahandwriting similar to that of Trumbull, which readsthus: Pa Eunice Short 22d Sept ig2$. $ Mrs Short 29th 5.— to Wash 6 Shirts & Cravats 7 Handkf8 5 pr Stockings 3 Vests ipr Drawers 2 Night Caps to Eunice ,22 Sep4 1826 30 pieces returned 29th Sep4 1826 by Mrs Short * + * SOME OF OUR READERS wish to know the meaningof the names Esopus and Ponckhockie. According tothe late E. M. Ruttenber, the authority on Indiannames in Eastern New York, Esopus means ** smallriver. It is derived from es, small and sepu, Indians of the valley of the Hudson were ofAlgonquin stock and sepu, or a variant, was used by allthe tribes in speaking of a stream. Ponckhockie isfrom a Dutch word,punthoekje, the point of a smallangle. 364 The Old Catskill House. 365 Governor **>&* George Clinton Twentieth Paper |fi] Ml URING the whole of the long warGovernor Clinton could pass no dayin which the valley of the Mohawkand the highway of Lake Champlaindid not claim his attention and causehim anxious moments. All throughthis year of the treason of Arnold the frontier was rest-less and savage Indians and still more savage Toriesmurdered, scalped and made prisoners of the helplesspatriot settlers. The previous year (1779) had wit-nessed the vengeance of Sullivan upon those of thegreat Iroquois confederacy who had joined the Britishand gone upon the war path against helpless womenand children. But that vengeance had scattered thefirebrands instead of extinguishing the fire. The sav-ages lurked along the outlying settlements eager forrevenge. With the advent of 1781 it was felt that there hadarrived a crisis in the long struggle. The campaign inthe South had been committed to General
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