Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long-Island: With Their Political Condition, to the End of the American Revolution
The Indians here, as every where else where they were settled annually burnt over the woods, in order to clear the land to provide food for the deer and other game.
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