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Excerpt from The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars With Indians and Tories, Its Missionary Schools, Pioneers and Land Titles, 1614 1800
In the history of the upper Susquehanna Valley as a highway, three distinct periods might be named. First come the trails Of the Indian era, dating from immemorial times and including the years Of the fur traders and the Protestant missions. Second is the time from 1770 to 1783, when by turns the vallev was a road for pioneers coming into the country, to be driven out by fire and the toma hawk; a road for Indians bent on spoliation or massacre; a route by land and. Water for the sol diers Of General Clinton; and, finally, a route along which the Indians, stirred to bitter revenge by Gen eral Sullivan's ravages, penetrated and laid waste all that remained Of the Mohawk and Schoharie settle ments. Third comes the period after the peace, when the valley was the road for settlers bound for the Southern Tier and Pennsylvania by way of Wattles's Ferry, from 1784 on for many years, and when from about 1800 it became at Unadilla the terminus of two great turnpikes, the Catskill and the Ithaca, which were the railroads of their time and along which for a quarter of a century ran the main course of trade and travel for a large inland territory.
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