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The New England Path

Say's Phoebe - San Antonio NM, April 15, 2010

The principal trails of the Indians through the wilderness, unbroken save by patches here and there under crude tillage, were two: one near the river; and the other, following the lines of least resistance, nearly identical with the roadbed of the Boston and Albany Railroad and long known as the "New England Path.

The principal trails of the Indians through the wilderness, unbroken save by patches here and there under crude tillage, were two: one near the river; and the other, following the lines of least resistance, nearly identical with the roadbed of the Boston and Albany Railroad and long known as the "New England Path.

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Their Council fire and palisaded village or castle were in Schodack, meaning Fire Place or Place of Council.  The site was Castle hill within the present village of Castleton.  another place of rendezvous was in Valatie, the Indian name of which (Pachaquak) signifies Meeting Place.  Beeren Island was long known as the island of the Mahicans, and Smack's as Aepjen's Island.

NATIVE AMERICANS OF COLUMBIA COUNTY, Kinderhook and its Indians, From the book A History of Old Kinderhook By Edward A. Collier, D.D., G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1914, Pages 8 to 21

clipped March 31, 2005

Collection: American History