Beadle's Dime Novels No. 95 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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EPH PETERS. “CHAPTER TI. THE HAG IN THE FOREST. Our story opens upon the southern bank of the Mohawk, not far from where the city of Schenectady now stands, in the year 1755. At this early period, with the exception of the few scattering forts, this region was in the hands of the In- dians. Yet it was neutral ground, and the French made their incursions from the north to this place. Only a few hardy pioneers, of the same stock which landed at Plymouth, and the hardy Dutchmen, made their way further up, and settled upon the banks of the Mohawk, far out of the reach of the guns of Fort Albany. The country was claimed and owned by the Mohawks, the fiercest of that famous confederacy known as the Six Nations, which embraced not only the Six Nations proper, consisting -of the Oneidas, Cayugas, Senecas, Onondagas and Tuscaroras, but many smaller and comparatively weiter tribes - Massa- chusetts and other States. | The confederacy, always an arrogant and ainehe power, took up the cause of England at an early period and remained. their firm allies. Lying as they did, they formed a strong barrier against the encroachments of the French, and could raise a lar ge army of savage warriors if required. The French have been blamed, and somewhat justly, for the manner in which they carried on the war against the #ng- lish colonists. But at this time, their conduct, though barbar- ous, was more than paralleled by the English, in the cold- blooded depopulation of the province of Acadie. Hundreds of families were separated forever, and carried to an inhospi- table region, leaving their pleasant fields in the hands of their conquerors, ™ conicloooks.com