1860s New York American Indian Village Archeology Dig Letter

$500.00

Dated St. Pumpkin’s Day 1868 from Newark Valley New York from noted genealogist D. Williams Patterson to an early Wilkes Barre PA founder Stephen Jenkins.   Interviewing elder locals and trying to piece together Indian villages from Sullivan’s Routes and Wilkinson’s Annals, makes mention of trying to find the author of Trappers of New York.   Surveying the Newark Valley,...

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Dated St. Pumpkin’s Day 1868 from Newark Valley New York from noted genealogist D. Williams Patterson to an early Wilkes Barre PA founder Stephen Jenkins.

 

Interviewing elder locals and trying to piece together Indian villages from Sullivan’s Routes and Wilkinson’s Annals, makes mention of trying to find the author of Trappers of New York.

 

Surveying the Newark Valley, Binghamton, the Village of Union, Nanticoke Creek and Union New York in search of the Coconut / Chugnut peoples’ settlements traced using clam shell beds as a guide.

 

Closes with: Indian grave opened at Union a few days ago. I have some teeth, brass ornaments for fastening a cloak or collar piece, piece of pottery and part of shoulder blade of his horse which was buried with him.

 

 

Measures 5 x 8”, 7 pages w/ tears along original folds.