Name/Title
Goodwill NotesEntry/Object ID
002013Tags
William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
— Claim — With them, and have no further trouble, ... — — — While The Old man (his Father) is now, past the Meridian, of Active Life, Yet, He may be of Service to You, as a Sentinel Gurdian, to You, & Your property; ... Suppose for instance, This very Night, A Large party of Our indians Were traveling through the Woods Upon Some Extraordinary Occasion
as sometimes happen with us, And should Come to this Wigwam, of This Days Work, having no previous know- -ledge thereof — — although Your Dogs might give the Alarm ... — — — Which however they could Easy Quiet, They Would not pass You, Without making a Thorough Examination into the Cause, Suppose they Could Speak, only the indian Languoague, What Could You Do, This Old man & his Son, might Rise, and give all satisfaction Required in a few Words, While You might Lay, and not Even take the trouble to Raise Your head from the Pillow ... — — — It is, for these and many Other useful Purposes, Which this Old man & his Son, Now Stays With You; And We trust, in Some Cases, His Counsel, if Asked for, through the Summer, You will find, may be Worth Listening to ... ... ... We Wish not to intrude upon the Ordinance of the Divine Sabbath of Nature or as You Call it, the Natural Sabbath of Rest for Each Natural Day — — And When We get Home, & find all Well, We Shall Join With You, in keeping the precepts Which Closes for the present Our talk with You
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By this time Sarah and Elizabeth, Emtied a Knapsack, & filled it again, With two Loves of Bread, ^tough Old Yet good, a Piece of New pan Bread, a Piece of Choice ham, a bit of Beef tongue and ^a piece of Cheese, to Carry to, the indian Woman & Children ... ... ... Which Was Received in Silence — — With the Due ^sense of Thankful Hearts By Shaking ^all our hands, with a Gentle Squeeze with all around in parting ... — — — Where Action is the plainest Languoague ... — ... — ... — — Thus & Thus ... the First Days Work, of Civilized improvement, Commenced And Closed, Conjointly, With the Aborigines, The Natives of the Soil.
... To Be Obtained From Libers A. B. and C. — in the Clerks office For the County of Orange, Now in the Village of Goshen. — And What We have Selected and Read, We trust are Sufficient to Show; the Process of ^political speculative civilization, from the Commencement, in the Wawayanda of Old Orange County, And for Nine successive Years ... ... ... yet no actual Settlers ... Perhaps, Nothing more, than a Mere Hut Built, for the Convenience of Surveyors & For the Rendezvouse of them ... With their Parties, While ^out Surveying ... Which as Likely, Become Demolished and Consumed, by the fires of the Wilderness in Their absence ... ... ... However, ^for much of their Surveying Business Within ^was done in N. York the Nine Years, From the 5th. of March 1703. to the Spring of the Year, 1712. Let Speculation, be What it may ... — Doubtless, there Was many Useful ^& actual surveys made, Relative to the Division of Rights, And Subdivision of the Rights Among the Patentees of Wawayanda; One of Which was of much Importance, As that of the plan of a Village, Laid Down, By Actual survey, into Town Lots, Called the East & West Division, of the Town Lots, of the Now Village of Goshen; With a Main Street passing Between them, Somewhat Northeasterly & Southwesterly, makeing ^of Goshen the East & West Division of the Lots of the Village With an Avenue for publick Buildings, at the South- -Westerly End of the main Street, together with a Parsonage Lot, — — — — — This Was a Becoming and Praiseworthy Speculation, Yet no actual Settlers Appeared ... ... ... With Some Degree of Consternation & Dismay ... Among the Patentees and Second-hand purchasers of a Similar Cast ... ... ... Let us pause —
