Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX A RED ESAU "He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship, or cut a throat! With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought." HE village adjacent to the clear lake upon the shore of Manhansett-aha-quasha-warnuck, the summer abode of the Manhansetts, was in a state of unusual, though suppressed excitement. Within the great council lodge two-score of chieftains and principal men of the tribes were assembled in council with three white men, while outside groups of younger braves and youths were gathered, debating in low murmurs the subject which was under discussion within the council-lodge, the confirmation of the titles to the lands which had been granted by the Earl of Stirling to James Farret, a measure against which the wise old King Poggatticut had set his face as a flint.1 1 In the power-of-attorney executed by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, to James Farret, authorising him to dispose of Long Island, he was at liberty to select for his own use 12,000 acres, in consequence of which he made a choice of Shelter Island and Robins Island in Peconic Bay, both of which, on the 18th of May, 1641, he sold to Stephen Goodyear, who afterward conveyed the same to Thomas Middleton, Thomas Rouse, Constant Sylvester and Nathaniel Sylvester, for 1600 wt. good merchantable (Muscovado) sugar. The grantees procured an immediate confirmation of the title from Yokee, the Manhansett Sachem, and his chief men, who covenanted and agreed at the same time to put away all their dogs, and in case any damage was done to the purchasers by them, to make a proper satisfaction for the same forthwith. Now the sage was dead; Yo-kee, his son, reigned in his stead, and Wyandance, Sachem of the Montauks, was the...
