Hawk's Nest; or, The Last of the Cahoonshees.: A Tale of the Delaware Valley and Historical Romance of 1690.Allerton, James M. (James Martin)
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Hawk's Nest; or, The Last of the Cahoonshees.: A Tale of the Delaware Valley and Historical Romance of 1690.
Allerton, James M. (James Martin)
Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Fiction; Historical fiction
=Page 36.—Handy Hill.= Is a ridge of land extending northeasterly from
Big Pond to Hartwood. A noted hunter by the name of Handy formerly lived
there. The Handy Town road was the first road laid out in the town of
Deerpark leading from the Neversink Valley to Sullivan County.
=Page 38.—The Grave= of Mary Powers was on the bank of the Delaware
River, about forty rods northwest of the Shinglekill. The stone wall
around it was visible in 1840, since that the bank has slid down into the
canal.
=Page 60.—Flat Boat.= This was a craft about thirty feet long and twelve
feet wide, and was used in early times by the Indian traders to transport
their goods to the head waters of the Delaware, where they exchanged
their goods with the Indians for furs. They towed or poled the boat up
the River, and floated down with the current.
=Page 86.—Hollicot Glen.= This was a narrow gulch on the old Mill Dam
Brook, about one mile west of Peenpack.
=Page 87.—Spring Brook.= In the early history of the Valley a Spring
Brook run from about where the Erie Railroad Round House in Port Jervis
is, to the Delaware River.
=Page 89.—Battle of the Neversink.= Tradition says, that the bodies of
those that perished in the Battle of the Neversink, were buried in three
pits near the bank of the Delaware River. In the year 1847, the New
York and Erie Railroad was built through the Village of Port Jervis. In
excavating and removing the earth near the bank of the river southwest
of Front Street, and about two hundred feet from the south side of the
street, on or near the land formerly owned by J. H. Dimmick, and used by
him as a lumber yard, three places were opened containing human bones.
They were remarkably preserved. The author saw several skulls in which
their teeth retained their whiteness. Joseph Van Inwegen was foreman of
the work, and Thomas Goble was one of the teamsters. They are both dead
now. A few days before the death of Goble, the author requested Dr. W. L.
Cuddeback to call on Goble and inquire of him in relation to the finding
of human bones at the time they were building the railroad through Port
Jervis. The Doctor called on Goble, who related the fact of finding the
bones substantially as stated by the author. The place of these pits was
pointed out to the author by Jacob C. Wilson.
=Page 96.—Skull Rock.= This rock is situated in the Town of Lumberland,
Sullivan County, N. Y. About one and a half miles east of Pond Eddy, and
one fourth of a mile west of Fish Cabin Brook. The projecting rock shown
in the engraving at page 96 was blasted off during the building of the
Delaware and Hudson Canal.
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