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	Cherry Valley (town), New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cherry Valley is a town located in Otsego County, New York, USA.
		The modern history of Cherry Valley begins with John Lindesay receiving the land in a grant from George II of England; he moved there in 1739, and seven Anglo-Scotch families from New Hampshire moved into the area the following year.
		Cherry Valley -- The Village of Cherry Valley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cherry_Valley_(town),_New_York (542 words)

	Cherry Valley massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cherry Valley massacre was an attack by British and Seneca Indian forces on a fort and village in eastern New York on November 11, 1778 during the American Revolutionary War.
		Despite the efforts of Butler and Brant to stop it, more than thirty women and children, and several Loyalist townspeople were killed and scalped.
		This, together with the massacre at Wyoming Valley helped pave the way for the Sullivan Expedition into the Iroquois homelands of central and western New York to neutralize the threat of future incursions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cherry_Valley_Massacre (271 words)

	Cherry Valley Historical Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The settlement history of Cherry Valley begins with the patenting of 9,200 acres to John Lindesay (a land grant was made by King George II, to four men, one of whom was John Lindesay, a Scotchman, who had the entire tract assigned to him and settled here in 1739).
		Cherry Valley soon became one of the strongest settlements of the frontier.
		Soon followed the Cherry Valley Academy (a renowned girl's finishing school), Oliver Judd's iron foundry (a sample of his work is at our present day Lithia Spring fountain), the National Central Bank established in 1818 (presently the NBT Bank), and is the oldest bank in New York State west of Albany.
	www.cherryvalleyny.com /museum.htm (394 words)

	CHERRY VALLEY - LoveToKnow Article on CHERRY VALLEY
		It is served by the Delaware and Hudson railway.
		Cherry Valley is in the centre of a rich farming and dairying region, has a chair factory, and is a summer resort with sulphur and lithia springs.
		It was the scene of a terrible massacre during the War of Independence.
	2.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHERRY_VALLEY.htm (117 words)

	Cherry Valley, New York (Cities)
		Cherry Valley is located in Otsego County between Richfield Springs and Sharon Springs on Highway 166.
		Cherry Valley was settled by Scotch-Irish Presbyterian families from New Hampshire in 1740.
		In the Cherry Valley Massacre of 1778, a force of 800 Indians and Tories attacked the village.
	www.ohwy.com /ny/c/cherryva.htm (98 words)

	Cherry Valley, New York -- A Landmark Village
		The settlement at Cherry Valley was established by John Lindesay in 1738.
		The Cherry Valley Massacre, along with an earlier rout by Butler's forces at Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, in time induced General Washington to redeploy some of his forces who were staving off the British, and focus them on securing the frontier.
		And in 1954 a section of the former Cherry Valley Turnpike was reconstructed to bypass Cherry Valley itself.
	www.cooperstown.net /cherryvalley (1171 words)

	Preservation Online: Story of the Week Archives
		CHERRY VALLEY—A developer's proposal to construct 27 wind turbines on a blustery ridge in this rural New York town has spurred opposition from some residents, who worry that their historic landscape and quiet lifestyle will be irreversibly altered.
		The proposed location for the Cherry Valley turbines, a hill called Cape Wykoff, is located on a 9,000-acre tract listed on the National Register of Historic Places that was part of an 18th-century land grant to John Lindesay, who established the settlement of Cherry Valley in 1783.
		Cherry Valley serves as a gateway to many Western New York attractions, including historic Cooperstown, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame and the Glimmerglass Opera.
	www.nationaltrust.org /Magazine/archives/arch_story/080902p.htm (1016 words)

	What really happened in: Cherry Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This, coming on the heels of the Wyoming Valley "Massacre", spurred them to put up their own "fort", really a wretched stockade affair which surrounded the church and the graveyard.
		When the decision was made to garrison the village of Cherry Valley with Continental troops, Col. Peter Ganesvoort, the able commander at Fort Stanwix who had repulsed St. Leger, asked for command of the garrison.
		Months passed and with it the false sense of security that the village of Cherry Valley was safe from attack, at least for that season.
	www.continentalline.org /articles/9503/950304.htm (1894 words)

	Cherry Valley Illumination Ahead Cherry Valley Income (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Patrons at Calvin L. Veasley's Chuck Wagon BBQ restaurant on Highway 1 in Cherry Valley won't be allowed to dance, but they will be able to drink beer with their food in the near future as a result of unanimous...
		CST CHERRY VALLEY-- A Region 8 family is outraged after their 5-year-old child was subjected to alleged abuse at Cherry Valley Elementary School.
		CHERRY VALLEY, A self-employed contractor formerly of Fort Plains was arrested Tuesday for alleged fraud against three Cherry Valley residents, Otsego County deputies said.
	cherryvalley.fashcherry.com (876 words)

	Diary of Captain Benjamin Warren at Massacre of Cherry Valley, New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was on the tenth of December, in 1778, that the village of Cherry Valley, in central New York, was attacked and destroyed by seven hundred Tories and Indians.
		that was burnt, to Cherry Valley about 60 miles lower; received intelligence that the French fleet was gone to Rhode Island to cover the landing of their troops, and to lay siege to that place.
		His parents made their home at the Canajoharie Castle, in the Mohawk Valley; but he was born while his parents were on a hunting expedition, in 1742, on the banks of the Ohio.
	www.ls.net /~newriver/ny/cherryvalley.htm (3032 words)

	Wyoming Valley massacre
		That valley is a beautiful region of Pennsylvania, lying between mountain ranges and watered by the Susquehanna River that flows through it.
		The region was claimed as a part of the domain of Connecticut granted by the charter of that province given by Charles the Second, and was called the county of Westmoreland.
		Nearly forty men, women, and children were led away captives, marching down the valley that night in the cold storm, huddled together half-naked, with no shelter but the leafless trees and no resting-place but the wet ground.
	publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_vol_2/wyomingva_bbg.html (1294 words)

	The Story of Old Fort Plain
		Early in 1778 the alarming news came to the valley that the western Indian tribes were to unite with the Mohawks, Cayugas, Onondagas and Senecas in a war upon the frontier, instigated by the Johnsons, Claus and Butler.
		McKean injudiciously wrote Brant a letter violently denouncing him and asking him to come to Cherry Valley, with the taunting remark that there he would be changed from a "brant" to a "goose," Brant was enraged by this letter and answered it later with the Cherry Valley massacre.
		In November, 1778, he, together with Brant, fell upon the Cherry Valley settlement with a force of seven hundred Tories and Indians and killed 32 people and 16 soldiers of the garrison, looted the place, burned all the buildings and took captive most of the survivors.
	www.threerivershms.com /greene14.htm (3863 words)

	The Battle of Cherry Valley
		The Cherry Valley Massacre was all about revenge; revenge on the part of Tories and Iroquois for the destruction of Oquaga, Unadilla, Tioga, and other settlements, and revenge of another kind by an irascible Tory named Walter N. Butler.
		That he was present at a great meeting of Indians and Tories at that place and their result was to attack Cherry Valley, and that young Butler was to head the Tories.
		After the attack was over, 182 inhabitants of Cherry Valley were homeless, and all foodstuffs had been destroyed or carried away.
	www.myrevolutionarywar.com /battles/781111.htm (3254 words)

	LitKicks: Cherry Valley Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		cherry valley, in case you don't know it, is ginsberg country.
		"allen introduced me to cherry valley," he said, and the sense of the place held sufficient appeal to the midwesterner and his wife pam that they've been solid cherry valley citizens ever since.
		it is a circuitous drive over a different mountain, a distant spur of cherry valley from where the village lies, and heavily wooded.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=CherryValleySunday (2110 words)

	The Mohican Board! [Bumppo's Redux!] - Cherry Valley Massacre
		I'm not too sure where they all came from, because Cherry Valley is really tucked into the hills, away from all the main cities.
		This was the brief memorial ceremony that was held at the Monument to the Massacre in the village cemetery.
		The apron was then tied around the waist of the "savage" who scalped her, so that it hung over his rump and fluttered in the breeze as he ran back to battle.
	www.mohicanpress.com /messageboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1392 (1121 words)

	225 Years Ago: Torch, Tomahawk Ravage Cobleskill
		HE YEAR of 1778 was marked by loyalist and Indian raids on frontier settlements from the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania to the Mohawk Valley of New York.
		On November 11, Butler’s son Walter led loyalists and Indians in the Cherry Valley Massacre.
		Casting his eye along the beautiful valley, and surveying the ruins of the preceding day, he discovered the old house of Warner, on the west side of the creek, still standing, to which he made his way.
	www.schohariehistory.net /Review/Spring2003/Christman.htm (2783 words)

	Hidden in Plain Sight...: When & Where: Timeline & Main Events
		Cherry Valley Frontier site of a Yankee defeat on November 8, 1778, termed “The Cherry Valley Massacre.” Its destruction became a pretext for launching Sullivan/Clinton.
		Its on site memorial reads the battle was fought "To Avenge the Massacres of Wyoming and Cherry Valley." In 2004, it is the principal site of the 225th S/c Anniversary events across New York State.
		William Butler in October, 1778 in retaliation for the destruction of Wyoming Valley by the John Butler-run Anglo-Tory-Indian raid.
	www.sullivanclinton.com /archives/000102.php (591 words)

	Cherry Valley, Otsego, NY, Presbyterian Church
		In placing before the reader a history of this church, it is deemed proper to give it in exteso, as its organization was coincident with the settlement of the place in 1740, and the annals of the church from that time to the present form, in a large degree, a history of the village.
		The frontier settlement of cherry Valley prospered and increased in population.
		The following is a letter written from Cherry Valley in reply to a citation to convene with the committee at a meeting for a certain Sunday.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/county/otsego/cherry/presbych.htm (1655 words)

	Cherry Valley, New York NY, village profile (Otsego County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cherry Valley, NY Cherry Valley is a village in Otsego County, in the Oneonta metro area.
		At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Cherry Valley was $15,808, compared with $21,587 nationally.
		Median rent in Cherry Valley, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $406.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=391 (631 words)

	HISTORY OF CHERRY VALLEY NEW YORK
		Susan Murray-Miller is the official Historian of the Town of Cherry Valley.
		She is also a member and secretary, of the Board of the Cherry Valley Historical Association and Museum.
		The morning was unearthly still and the fog had settled everywhere in the valley.....
	www.historiccherryvalley.com (160 words)

	Revolutionary War Reenactment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On September 20 - 21 2003, the Greater Cherry Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Cherry Valley Historical Association will be hosting a Revolutionary War re-enactment commemorating the 225th Anniversary of the Cherry Valley Massacre.
		Mr and Mrs (John & Barbara) Clark are donating a Bible to the Cherry Valley Museum which has been handed down from Johns ancestors.
		Asa was one of the casualities of the Massacre having been killed by a spear.
	www.cherryvalleymuseum.org /reenact.html (520 words)

	eBay - cherry valley, Postcards Paper, Historical Memorabilia items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cherry Valley Massacre, November 11, 1778 the Fron
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	uticaOD.com :: The meeting place and marketplace of the Mohawk Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Those of you who enjoy old architecture and stories of the Revolutionary War era will enjoy driving through historic Cherry Valley en route to the state forest.
		The Cherry Valley Massacre — one of the most notorious battles of the Revolutionary War — was fought in the little village Nov. 11, 1778.
		Later, in 1799, the Cherry Valley Turnpike, a major thoroughfare of the day, was constructed, temporarily making the village a busy commercial center.
	www.uticaod.com /outdoors/adventures/cherry_valley/story_sep17.htm (558 words)

	Historical Area Markers in New York State - Inventory Page Three
		The Cherry Valley Turnpike, chartered in 1799, opened the stagecoach era, encouraged westward migration and the rise of small communities along its route.
		Retaliating for Tory and Indian raids on Cherry Valley and Cobleskill, General James Clinton's troops came down the valley in 1779, floating on the dammed-up waters from Otsego Lake, and forced the Indians to leave their devastated lands.
		As the main gateway between the Adirondack Mountains, and the Allegheny Plateau, the valley came to be used by French-Catholic missionaries, land-hungry settlers moving west, foreign travelers, French and Indian raiders, British tory, and American troops.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /services/largemarkers/inventorythree.html (3648 words)

	Cherry Valley Massacre - Letters of Walter Butler and John Butler
		I am now happy to inform your Excellency of his having intirely destroyed the fertile Settlement of Cherry Valley on the Frontier of the Province of New york.
		The particulars of his Expedition brought on Express by Lieu't Hare, are transmitted to your Excellency by Colonel Bolton.
		Transcribed by Judy Longley from microfilm of the Haldimand Papers in possession of the British Library, London; courtesy of the Public Archives of Canada.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nyherkim/regiments/butlerletters.html (820 words)

	CHERRY VALLEY MUSEUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Also a display case with four or five original items relating to Berdan Sharpshooters and Cherry Valley will be shown and serve as the subject for the talk.
		Wormuth would pass that way in the company of Peter Sitz, as they carried dispatches from the garrison of Cherry Valley to the encampment of Col. Klock at the Mohawk River.
		and his aide left Cherry Valley on their journey past Tekaharawa Falls and the rock.
	www.cherryvalleymuseum.org (402 words)

	Cross-Rip History Page
		The latter was infamous at the time because he led the Cherry Valley Massacre against the Colonists a few years before.
		This represented one of the last battles in the Mohawk Valley and was the beginning of the end of the Revolutionary War.
		It was right here, between Herkimer and Utica, the Valley and surrounding area was populated by believers, willing to trust that they would endure.
	www.borg.com /~wmahanna/history.htm (297 words)

	TOUR: Cherry Valley, New York
		Isabelle McClung, who loved her mother’s native town, rented a house here for them both, and Cather reported to her boss S.S. McClure that the place made her feel better than she had in years—she was sleeping well, enjoying even rainy weather, and not thinking at all about magazine work.
		Cherry Valley is situated in Leatherstocking country twelve miles northeast of Cooperstown and Otsego Lake on county route 166.
		The Carsons, 1524 County Highway 54, Cherry Valley, N.Y. Boasts 75-mile view of the Mohawk Valley, Adirondacks, and the Green Mountains of Vermont.
	www.unl.edu /cather/resources/tours/cherry_valley.html (363 words)

	History Channel: Cherry Valley Massacre ...
		I have to take the rest of the link with more than a little skepticism since it suggests that MONTCALM ordered a fort built in Cherry Valley in 1778 which is strange because history suggests that MONTCALM died at Quebec in 1759.
		places like cherry valley, oriskany, johnstown, etc and the whole "burning of the valley"* are overshawdowed by other campaigns.
		As a life long resident of the Mohawk Valley, I agree with your statement.
	boards.historychannel.com /thread.jspa?threadID=600004068&tstart=0&start=-1 (1134 words)

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