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	Minisink Ford, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minisink Ford, New York is a village on the Delaware River fifteen miles northwest of Port Jervis.
		In 1800, the Town of Minisink was given its present boundaries, thirty miles southwest of Minisink Ford.
		During the American Revolution in 1779 Minisink Ford was the site of the Battle of Minisink in which 40–50 settlers were killed in an engagement with a band of Indians and Loyalists under English Colonel Joseph Brant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minisink_Ford,_New_York (260 words)

	BATTLE OF MINISINK
		Although in battle he generally gave full scope to the murderous propensities of his followers, it cannot be denied be endeavored to mitigate the horrors of war whenever he could do so without destroying his influence with his own race.
		Captain Bezaleel Tyler (slain a the battle of Minisink), was present, and witnessed the ceremonies.
		On the 22d of July, 1879, the one hundredth anniversary of the Minisink battle, a large enthusiastic gathering was held on the battle-ground.
	home.earthlink.net /~sussex_nj_history/id11.html (10392 words)

	Sullivan County Democrat: Battle of Minisink Recalled
		MINISINK FORD — July 24, 2001 – Though it was a tremendously lethal battle fought in part due to a premature musket shot, a record crowd of 150 people remembered on Sunday that sacrifice of life and limb made by 44 militiamen two centuries ago.
		For 122 years, residents of and visitors to Minisink Ford on the Delaware River have observed a memorial to the only Revolutionary War battle to occur on Sullivan County soil, and Sunday’s event at the top of a small hill in the county’s Minisink Battleground Park carried on that tradition.
		Though a defeat for colonists, the battle was never forgotten, and the Sullivan County Historical Society, which organized the event, made doubly sure of that on Sunday.
	www.sc-democrat.com /archives/2001/news/07July/24/minisink.html (535 words)

	Battle of Midway - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Battle of Midway
		The Midway victory was one of the most important battles of the Pacific war – Japanese naval air superiority was destroyed in one day, putting an end to Japanese expansion and placing them on the defensive thereafter.
		In May 1942 the Japanese planned to expand their conquests by landing troops in the Aleutian islands and on Midway.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Battle+of+Midway (266 words)

	Untitled Document
		Captain Vail was killed at the battle of Minisink, and Stephen Savy was captured by the British and Indians in a separate action conducted during the Sullivan Clinton campaign.
		The Minisink Battle in its entirety is described below in an excerpt from "Legends of the Shawangunk, by Philip H. Smith, Published: Pawling, NY: Smith and Co., 1887.
		Abigail Mitchell, a daughter of Captain Bezaleel Tyler (slain at the battle of Minisink), was present, and witnessed the ceremonies.
	www.edenstree.com /bvailminisink.html (5876 words)

	Shawnee Indian Chiefs and Leaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His mother is said of the white man, and denied the right of the Government to make land purchases from any single tribe, on the ground that the territory, especially in the Ohio valley country, belonged to all the tribes in common.
		A Minisink and subsequently a Shawnee chief of the 17th and 18th centuries.
		He appears first in history in 1680, when as sachem of the Minisink he sent 40 men to join the Mohawk in an expedition against the French, and 10 years later was sent by his tribe to confer with Gov. Dongan of New York in regard to engaging in the war against the same nation.
	www.accessgenealogy.com /native/tribes/shawnee/shawneechiefs.htm (1839 words)

	Minisink Valley Historical Society - The Battle At Minisink Ford
		The Minisink battle has become part of the heritage of the region encompassed by Sullivan and Orange counties, New York, Sussex County, New Jersey, and Pike County, Pennsylvania.
		The Battle of Minisink is commemorated at four sites: here at the battleground, on the village square in Goshen, New York, in the Lackawaxen Cemetery adjoining St. Mark's Church in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania and Fort Decker in Port Jervis, New York.
		The Minisink Battleground Park was initially established by the Minisink Valley Historical Society in the 1890's in order to head off destruction of the landscape by bluestone quarrying operations.
	www.minisink.org /minisinkbattle.html (1503 words)

	Section 9 Duals, MV Wrestling for the latest in sports schedules and upcoming events, with Coach Kevin Gallagher and ...
		The Minisink Valley Warriors, who qualified 15 wrestlers for the tourney, had strong showings in the first three rounds of the day-long event and built a huge lead going into the finals rounds to outdistance the field with 141.5 points.
		Minisink Valley and Port Jervis, fresh off their epic battle from two weeks earlier, were also in the thick of things as were Newburgh and Monroe Woodbury, each with strong wrestlers throughout their line-ups.
		A third period escape by the Minisink Valley senior was all the scoring in the third period and Gurdineer captured the Section 9 275lb Championship.
	www.mvwrestling.com /Section9/story.htm (2260 words)

	Sullivan County Democrat: In Touch With History
		MINISINK FORD — July 22, 2003 – On July 22, 1779, the Battle of Minisink went down in history as one of the more important events in the Revolutionary War.
		That massacre, and the men who fought and died during it, was remembered on Sunday afternoon at the Commemoration of the Battle of Minisink – the 224th Anniversary of the Minisink Raid – at the Minisink Battleground Park in Minisink Ford.
		The recitation of the “American’s Creed” was led by Mary Madison, regent of the Beaverkill Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR).
	www.sc-democrat.com /archives/2003/news/07July/22/minisink.html (551 words)

	Lackawaxen Township, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, showing Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct crossing the Delaware River to Minisink Ford, New York (left).
		In the Battle of Minisink in 1779, 40-50 settlers were killed in an engagement with a band of Indians and Loyalists under English Colonel Joseph Brant.
		During the early part of the 19th century, logging was the principal commercial activity in the area; as much as 50 million board feet of lumber were produced annually.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lackawaxen (826 words)

	Grappling with predictions
		Minisink Valley senior Neal Sutera (27-7), the No. 2 seed, is the most experienced.
		Minisink Valley junior Matt Nicholas (25-12), the No. 3 seed, will be in the hunt.
		Minisink Valley sophomore Cory Lempka (27-7), the No. 2 seed, is a little rusty after breaking his right hand two weeks ago.
	www.recordonline.com /archive/2005/02/25/losportd.htm (1088 words)

	Remembering the battle at Minisink
		MINISINK FORD, NY — Along with the anniversary of the nation’s birth, July also marks the anniversary of a local event that played a role in that birth, the Battle of Minisink.
		The Minisink Battle Monument at the Battleground Park was erected for the centennial in 1879.
		The battle is also commemorated in Lackawaxen, PA, where a casualty, known only as the Unknown Soldier of the Revolutionary War, is buried alongside Scenic Drive.
	www.riverreporter.com /issues/04-07-15/feature.html (877 words)

	Honoring the Minisink dead (editorial) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 210th commemoration of the "Battle of Minisink" on July 22nd -- in what we now call the Town of Highland -- raises questions not easily faced by those of us of European and other foreign descent.
		If we wish to commemorate the "battle" by remembering and honoring its dead, our focus should include all who died there, as well as the broader historical context of what these deaths meant.
		The story of the taking of the Minisink is largely the story of how one Mohawk chief who wound up on the wrong side of a political struggle among whites, for independence from England.
	tomrue.net /history/news/rue/890727.htm (682 words)

	Firefighters battle blaze in Minisink
		Minisink - While his firefighters attacked still-smoldering hot spots in the gutted house, Steve Conklin watched and agonized, wondering out loud if the house might have been saved if crews had been able to get there even a few moments earlier.
		A team of firefighters raced into the burning home in hopes of stopping the flames before they consumed the rest of the house but were beaten back by the fire.
		Firefighters battled the fire valiantly for more than two hours.
	www.recordonline.com /archive/2005/12/13/news-drhouseX-12-13.html (374 words)

	The Hascall Story
		Could there be any connection between naming the town and the Hascal1s who moved there?" They surely were the son and the grandson of Lt. Hascall and, in some later installment of the Hascall story, we shall describe such a connection with all its tragic and, we contend, true implications.
		To quote the author: "Minisink Battlefield was the scene of a Revolutionary War engagement on July 22, 1779.
		After the tragic death of Lt. Hascall at the Minisink Massacre, we believe his widow and their children remained at Lackawaxen at least as long as protective security measures were provided.
	www.buffnet.net /~macdowel/evans/hascall.htm (3926 words)

	Pulaski
		The allegorical painting of Pulaski in the Battle of Savannah by Stanislaw Batowski-Kaczor hangs in the Pulaski Museum in Warka, Poland.
		Due to the steadily-increasing Russian pressures and the vacillations of the last king of Poland, Stanislaw August Poniatowski, the confederacy disintegrated and Pulaski, unjustly charged with the crime of regicide, was forced into exile in 1773.
		From October 8, 1778, to February 8, 1779, the Pulaski Legion was engaged in minor skirmishes with the British while guarding the frontiers at Egg Harbor and Minisink on the Delaware river.
	www.polamjournal.com /Library/Biographies/Pulaski/pulaski.html (896 words)

	CHAPTER 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Minisink Island and the country around--Dutch ox carts--Wolves, panthers, and wildcats--Old home of Ks charming yet--Johannes Kuykendall marries Elizabeth Brink--Old cabin of John K--Millrace and masonry--Excerpts from Journal of House of Burgesses--Old deeds and records--Family record of Johannes Kuykendall, The Four Brothers in Indiana--Around old Vincennes, Indiana.
		The Indians in the Minisink country were friendly with the whites at that time and invited the flsmith Tietsoort to go to their country and start a flsmith shop.
		While Mattheus and his bride, at the time of their marriage, lived in the Minisink region, not far from Machackemeck or Port Jervis, they chose to go back to Kingston to be 'married, for this was the old home of both.
	w3.gorge.net /forest/THE%20BOOK-TBL%20OF%20CONT-CHAP%201,2,%203,4,5,7-11.htm (18797 words)

	Minisink Valley Historical Society - Welcome!
		The Minisink Valley is an area which reaches from Minisink Ford, New York, to Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, to the Delaware Water Gap at New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including:
		The Minisink Valley Historical Society (MVHS) headquarters is located at 125-133 West Main Street in Port Jervis, New York.
		As this old post card states, this is a view of the downtown of the city "in the near future." Overhead trams, balloons, and Jules Verne type airplanes would have been common.
	www.minisink.org (392 words)

	Sullivan County INTRAnet : Department of Public Works : Minisink Battleground Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The park, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is dedicated to the brave men who fought and died at the "Battle of Minisink", the Upper Delaware's only major Revolutionary War skirmish.
		An Interpretive Center contains displays which explain the various themes of the park: the battle, the flora and fauna and mankind's use of the park down through the ages.
		It was here, under the shelter of this rock, that seventeen wounded patriots under the care of Lt. Colonel (Dr.) Benjamin Tusten were overwhelmed and put to the tomahawk by the Indians and Tories of Joseph Brant.
	co.sullivan.ny.us /content/depts/dpw/minisink.asp (207 words)

	History of Delaware County by Jay Gould - Chapter V
		One of the most exposed of the frontier settlements during the campaign of 1779, was Minisink, an ancient settlement on the Delaware River.
		The order was promptly obeyed, and a body of one hundred and forty-nine men, including many of the principal men of the county, met their colonel at the designated rendezvous, at the time appointed.
		The battle of the Delaware was unquestionably one of the hardest fought conflicts during the Revolutionary war; and Brant afterward informed Squire Whitaker,
	www.dcnyhistory.org /books/gould5.html (6086 words)

	ScotchtownHighlander.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Arnell was a native of the Minisink region and in his youth he may have witnessed or felt the impact of the violent events that took place in that vicinity.
		These raids culminated in the Battle of Minisink in 1779, when a band of militiamen sent from Goshen to confront the Indians was routed.
		His work was later published and led to an organized effort to identify and collect the remains of the fallen from that battle, and in 1822 he participated in a procession and dedication for the deceased.
	www.scotchtownhighlander.com /history/articles/drarnell.htm (1916 words)

	WHAT DID HAPPEN ON TOP OF THAT ROCKY HILL? TERRAIN, GEOLOGY, AND HISTORICAL UNCERTAINTY AT THE BATTLE OF MINISINK ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Though much has been written on the Battle of Minisink, the events of that horrific day are shrouded in uncertainly.
		The causes of this historical confusion can largely be traced to conflicting accounts in early recollections, to the poor quality of battleground maps in many subsequent writings, and to the fact that the wilderness site lay neglected for 43 years before the bodies of the slain militiamen were recovered.
		The upper east face of the hill, where most of the battle was apparently fought, consists of four topographic steps formed by sandstone ledges 10 to 20 ft high.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2001NE/finalprogram/abstract_1425.htm (422 words)

	The flag controversy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Last and least comes my colleague's inclusion of the Battle of Minisink into his panorama of genocide.
		The Battle of Minisink was a wayside, largely inconsequential skirmish in the American Revolution.
		The plaques carry the name of the chief who spent the rest of his days searching for a new home for his people until they finally ended their search on the banks of the Grand River.
	tomrue.net /history/news/rue/890803dh.htm (1572 words)

	Untitled Document
		The battle’s only results are that the British speed up their plans to retreat to Beaufort.
		The patriots are overwhelmed and Tusten and approximately 45 others are killed in the battle and ensuing massacre while 29 others manage to escape.
		At what is modern-day Elmira, Continental forces are led by Generals John Sullivan and James Clinton and defeat a combined force of Loyalists and Indians commanded by Captain Walter Butler and Chief Joseph Brant.
	www.nps.gov /revwar/revolution_day_by_day/1779_bottom.html (1778 words)

	Did You Know?
		The battle was fought between the colonial militia of Goshen, who suffered a devastating defeat against a group of Indians and Tories commanded by Mohawk chieftain Joseph Brant.
		Facilities include a picnic area, interpretive center, and self-guided trails.The Minisink Battleground Park is located in Southern Sullivan County, off Route 97 just west of Barryville, NY.” (Catskills).
		The Delaware Aqueduct at Minisink Ford is the oldest wire suspension bridge in America.
	www.thespringhouse.com /didyou.html (876 words)

	Elizabeth (Sawyer) Knapp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Elizabeth was probably the wife of John Knapp, which would mean she was the grandmother of Mary Valentine Sawyer and a great aunt of Benjamin Carpenter Sawyer.
		DAR record 45476 references Elizabeth and John, since John's father, James Knapp, served as a private in the Revolutionary War and was killed at the battle of Minisink.
		One of the papers from the OCGS shows that John Knapp was married to this Elizabeth's younger sister Sarah (Elizabeth) Sawyer on 24 May 1787, suggesting that this Elizabeth died young (ca.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Fields/3076/ElizK.html (116 words)

	Timeline
		Congress authorizes Pulaski to raise an Independent Corps of 68 mounted troops (1 troop of lancers and 2 of Dragoons) and 200 foot "equipped in the manner of light infantry".
		November 1778- Legion stationed in the Minisink Valley region of NY to garrison against attacks by Indians and Tories on the frontier.
		Winter 1778/79- Legion split between Minisink, Morristown and Trenton NJ because of supply problems.
	www.pulaskilegion.org /timeline.htm (314 words)

	Battle of Minisink and the Revolutionary War
		MINISINK FORD, NY — Last Sunday, the mournful notes of “Taps” were sounded and a small bell tolled once for each of the 46 colonial militia who died in defense of their homes and neighbors at the Battle of Minisink.
		For the first time in the memory of most participants, a steady rain forced the annual commemoration of the 1779 battle under the cover of the picnic pavilion at the county park that now occupies the battlefield.
		A monument to the colonial dead was raised in 1879 and Sullivan County later acquired the land, which is today Minisink Battleground Park.
	www.riverreporter.com /issues/04-07-22/news-minisink.html (578 words)

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