Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-04-07

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the same sort of deep patriotic heart-throl
which sent her father, after his family had been
torn from him. with heart all bleeding and
riven, into the ranks for the protection of doom
ed Wyoming. What stronger evidence could
he or she give of their ability-to express in
the best kind of Connecticut language-the
"Shiboleth of Wyoming? -
] shall next call attention to such portions
Of your fathers communication as seem to re,
quire comment and, first: notice great
wrong which he has done himself and his His
tory" The families, settled at the Wysox,
were from Catskill, as became known to your
father through the ST. Nicholas. In order
to give some foundation for his attack upon
them, and to help make out his case, he pre-
tends to quote from his own Book the Histo-
ry of Wyoming. Now, sir, do you know that
he has quoted incorrectly-spuriously? On
the right column you will find a true extract
from his book, as published in lS45-page lS9:
on the left column, the spurious extract, as
contained IN your paper of last week.
SPURIOUS. GENUINE.
There had come in strange There had strange
families Of nterlopers from families of interlopers from
Minisink from Weschester Minsink from Westchester
New York from kinderhOok New York from Kinderhook
from CGtSsW and the No and the Mohawk neither con-
hawk neither connected with with Penn syyana
PennSyl COunecti-inOr Connecticut between
cut, between whom and the whom and the old settlers
old settlers there neither there neither sympathy
sympathy fleeing coof feeling nor community Of
muuity OF fnterest-Ean Cor Van
derS and Van Alstnes and tiOrders Van Astines-
Others-A path Of communi-IA path of communication
cation opened between opened by the dsaected
New York bysor and Tio-i between New York and Nj
the Indian country and igar strike the Susque-
Niagara, to strike the Sus- hanna twenty miles above
quehanna twenty miles above Nilkes-barre.'
Wilkes-barre.'
1t appears from this, that to make out a
case" Your father has interpoated the words,
- Catskill' the old home of the SrRoPEs 81
"WySox," their new home. and further, the
words a. and Others" In the spurious extract,
he has left out the Wintermoots," the most
notorious of all, and substituted the words and
others" for the purpose, doubtless, when ques-
toned, to answer that those words included
the WISrERNooTs, SrRoPEs and VAN VALKES-
BURGs. What a miserable trick How un-
fortunate sir, that your compositor set up those
interpretations in itaiics. thus making them so
conspicuous to the public and did you sup
pose, when you allowed the article to go into
Your columns, that some friend Of the STRoPEs
would not detect the wrong? Why, the words
''CatSkill F." "SrRoPEs" and VAN ''VALKENBURGs"
do not appear in Your fathers work of lS45.
from the beginning TO the end Here is an
" afterthought" with Tengeance-yeS, truly,
with rsRgsan9.
This disclosure, sir, needs no comment but
fair-minded public, rest aSsured-particular-
ly the surviving representatives of this family
will, of right, make their own comments In
the name of common farness-in the name of
the dead and the living-I ask why YOU, as
editor aud son, suffered this 70 90 into print
thus Pray, sir, urge your father to make a
prompt correction. Let justice be done-Sm-
pie justice. Let not the pure current Of histo-
r. te thus polluted. This IS all that family ask
Of YOU
Your father SAYS =" Her narrative must
have been an afterthoUght," &c Please 10
say 10 him, that | deem it fortunate for her,
and not little so for myself, that there are
individuals vet living, who have heard her mar
rate it, just as il has been printed. give you
their names aud PoStoffce address Captain
DANIEL r. PARK, FlemingviIIe, Toga Co. /:
JESSE NQCIGG. JACOB CATLIN, CHAUSCEY HILL,
DAVID TAYLOR Mrs. JoEL FARNHAM, Mr.. and
Mrs. SYLvENUs Fox and, ct a later date, Mr.
+. III. PCNPELLY, Owego Not only before
1882, when your father e4HHeHcsi his research
but at an early day, they heard her narrative.
before he ever thought Of erecting upon the
bank Of the SuSquehanna, tribunal, ike that
of the GileaditeS, at the passages of the Jor-
dan, 10 see. forsooth. whether Judge HoLIEN-
BACK. SEBASTIAN STRoPR, and Others, who hap
pened, without fault of their own. TO hail from
Virginia, Catskill &c, instead of Connecticut
to see. | say, whether such incorruptible pa
triot> oog!d express the I" Shibboleth of Wyo-
ming in q way that he could approve Please
say to your father, that if he had consulted a
little more freely the papers of Judge HoLLgN-
BACK, in the possession Of his son. GEORGE NJ,
and some other authentic sources which be has
somewhat neglected, il would not have injured
his history
After impuCning nv motives. in a vav not
TO be misunderstood your father, with his foot
still planted upon the grave OF Mrs. WBTrAkER
SAYS further of the STRoPEs: nder what
title or auspices did they setIle7 Neither the
gallant and patriotic grandfather Of Mr. Ave
RY. nor any other Connecticut settlers recos-
nized them at that time | viii answer. FIRST,
that there are no documents 10 show il hut
the tradition IS, that AT the time OF the cap
ture, they were holding under g Connecticut
claim The township in which WvSox was
situated. was Claveraek" q name given bv
the SuSquehanna proprietors, and that being
the name of a town ou the East side Of the
Hudson, nearly opposite Catskill, where the
YAK NALSKNBCRGs had lived how natural for
the Connecticut owners 10 endesvor TO please
the settlers from CatSkill and Old Claverack." :"
by giving the same name to their new homes.
In this view the STRoPEs and Wax EMkEN-
BURsss look like any other sort of characters
than adventuring " interlopcrs,@ They secured
from the proprietors- their old Dutch name
10 which, by early associations they had be
come so mu,h attached This Indicates terms
of Cordial confidence between them and the pa
triotic pFopretoEs-9
But. sir. with considerable effort, and With
his foot set upon an hoaored Iady's tomb, your
father reaches Up 10 pluck the leaves from the
laurel. which. hy patient research and with
h.r..r- r.n-,,.,s.. L bad Ma anteI anl had hen