Legends of the Shawangunk (Shon-Gum) and its environs, including historical sketches, biographical notices, and thrilling border incidents and adventures relating to those portions of the counties of Orange, Ulster and Sullivan lying in the Shawangunk region . nce along the high hill southwest toMaggoneck, including between these bomidaries, etc. This tract the Indianaagreed to sell for the goods specified in the following list: iO kettles, 40 axes, 40 addices, 40 shirts, 100 fathoms of Avhite wampum,100 bars of lead, 1 keg of powder, 60 pairs of socks. 100 knives, 4 ankers ofwine, 40 guns, 60
Legends of the Shawangunk (Shon-Gum) and its environs, including historical sketches, biographical notices, and thrilling border incidents and adventures relating to those portions of the counties of Orange, Ulster and Sullivan lying in the Shawangunk region . nce along the high hill southwest toMaggoneck, including between these bomidaries, etc. This tract the Indianaagreed to sell for the goods specified in the following list: iO kettles, 40 axes, 40 addices, 40 shirts, 100 fathoms of Avhite wampum,100 bars of lead, 1 keg of powder, 60 pairs of socks. 100 knives, 4 ankers ofwine, 40 guns, 60 duffel coats, 60 blankets, 1 schepel of pipes, etc. Having thus extingiiished the Indian title to this tract by the present ofarticles valued by the red man, the settlers of New Paltz enjoyed a comparativeimmunity from savage outbreak during the early wars. In order to arrive,however, at a more complete imderstanding of the history of this settlement,reference wiU be made, in brief, to an event in the chronicles of the old world. The French Protestant Huguenots were celebrated for their love of hbertyand zeal for their chosen religion. Persecutions against them were temporarilyabandoned during the reign of Henry IV, King of Navarre, from 1589 to 1610,.
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