Munsee Indian Trade in Ulster County New York 1712-1732: A Section from the Anonymous ‘Account Book, 1711-1729’ [in Dutch] Philip John Schuyler Papers (Volume 11)

Maps

1. Places associated with the Indian Trade section (1712–32) of the Ulster County account book (1711–29). Created by J. Michael Smith. 2. Detail from a 1751 map depicting the lowlands along the Nawesinck (or present Neversink) River sold by the Esopus Indians in 1705. The island marked HH (shown at bottom) was the home of Old Abram or Kwakasagh, a man whose burial was recorded by the Ulster County trader in 1725 (Wilson Family Papers, Map Division, 3K-13, OCLC #248245876). Courtesy William L. Clements Library, Univ. of Michigan. 3. Copy of a map from 1772 depicting the heart of the Ulster County settlements in the early eighteenth century. Named Indian flats or meadow lands on the upper Rondout Creek (shown at far left) were sold by the Esopus Indians in 1703 and incorporated as part of the Rochester Patent that same year. Native individuals listed in the sale named Kattkies, Tautapagh, Kwakasagh, Pansogh, and Norman are all noted over a decade later as patrons of the anonymous Dutch trader (Cockburn Family Land Papers, box 9, folder 17, item 116). Courtesy of New York State Library, Manuscripts and Special Collections, Albany. MunseeIndianTradeinUlsterCounty,NewYork,1712–1732 ...