A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635: The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz Van Den Bogaert, Revised Edition

Title Page, Frontispiece, Copyright, Dedication, About the Editors

A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634–1635 The Iroquois and Their Neighbors Christopher Vecsey, Series Editor 1. Fort Orange, Rensselaerswijck (Albany, New York), circa 1650. Painting by L. F. Tantillo. © 2009 by Leonard F. Tantillo. Used by permission of Leonard F. Tantillo. A JOURNEY INTO MOHAWK AND ONEIDA COUNTRY, 1634–1635 The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert R EVISED EDITION Translated and edited by CHARLES T. GEHRING and WILLIAM A. STARNA Wordlist and linguistic notes by GUNTHER MICHELSON SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS Copyright © 2013 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244–5290 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED First Paperback Edition 1991 First Revised Edition 2013 13 14 15 16 17 18 6 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences —Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our website at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978–0-8156–3322–8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available upon request from the publisher. MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA This volume is respectfully dedicated to WILLIAM N. FENTON Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Dean of Iroquoianists, teacher, scholar, and trusted friend. CHARLES T. GEHRING was born in Fort Plain, an old Revolutionary War and Erie Canal village in New York State’s Mohawk Valley.After completing his undergraduate and graduate studies at Virginia Military Institute and West Virginia University, he continued post-graduate work with the assistance of a Fulbright grant at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany . There he began his study of the Dutch language and first realized his future research lay much closer to home. In 1973 he received a Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics from Indiana University with a concentration in Netherlandic Studies. His dissertation was a linguistic investigation of the survival of the Dutch language in colonial New York. He is presently director of the New Netherland Research Center (sponsored by the New York State Library). The Center is responsible for translating the official records of the Dutch colony, promoting awareness of the Dutch role in American history, and maintaining a center for research in New Netherlandic studies at the Library. He has been a Fellow of the Holland Society of New York since 1979. In 1994, Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands conferred on him a knighthood as officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He has received gold medals from the Netherlands Society of Philadelphia, the Holland Society of New York, and the St. Nicholas Society of New York. WILLIAM A. STARNA was born in Little Falls and raised in St. Johnsville, both Erie Canal towns in the Mohawk Valley. His undergraduate and graduate degrees are from the State University of New York at Albany. He is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, and Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Geography, Queen’s University , Kingston, Ontario.A longtime student of the Iroquoian and Algonquian peoples of eastern North America, in addition to federal–state–Indian relations, he has held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Senior Fellowship at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, and the Donald M. Blinken Fellowship in Academic Administration at SUNY Central Offices. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books, most recently From Homeland to New Land: A History of the Mahican Indians, 1600–1830 (2013). GUNTHER MICHELSON (1924–2005) had a life-long interest in Iroquois history, culture, and linguistics. He was an expert in the Mohawk language and its documentation in historical sources. ...