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 105.—Bushkill Falls.= These Falls are on the Bushkill Brook which
rises at the Sand Springs on the Texas property, and about a half a mile
west of Rio Post Office, and three fourths of a mile east of the Mongaup
River. The Rattle Snake den has been blasted out to get quarry stone.
Formerly trout were numerous in this stream, which is located in lot No.
38 of the 7th Division, of the Minisink Patent in the Town of Deerpark.
=Page 175.—Yah House, or Hunting House.= Was situated at or near
Wurtsboro, Sullivan Co., N. Y. It was at this house that Charles Webb
commenced the survey of the Minisink Patent.
=Page 210.—Fort Dewitt, now Port Clinton.= Is situated on the south side
of the Neversink River, one mile south of Cuddebackville, and about one
eighth of a mile east of the aqueduct over the Delaware and Hudson Canal.
Governor Dewitt Clinton was born in this house. His parents resided in
the Town of Montgomery, and his mother was on a visit to the Dewitt
family at the time of his birth, where she had been detained for several
days by a long northeast snow storm.
=Page 210.—Cahoonshee Trail.= The road running from Huguenot to Mongaup
bridge is nearly on this trail and strikes the Mongaup River opposite
Grassy Brook. The trail continued northwest to Cochecton in Sullivan Co.
This was the trail taken by Brandt after his raid in the Neversink Valley
in July 1779, in which he was followed by Colonel Hawthorn and Tusten,
and ended in the Battle of Minisink, in the Town of Highland, Sullivan
Co., on the 22nd day of July 1779.
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