These events took place during the Revolutionary War on the banks of the Delaware River at Cochecton, Sullivan County, New York ---
"The patriots of Mamakating appointed a Committee of Safety, composed, according to tradition, of Gerardus Van Inwegen, Benjamin Depuy, Thomas Kyte and one of the Swartwouts—all good and true whigs of Peenpack. This committee organized a company of scouts, under the command of Captain Bezaleel Tyler, a refugee from Cochecton, and the scouts occasionally made a visit to this remote neighborhood to "regulate" suspicions characters and make reprisals. [. . .]
When the scouts visited Cochecton, they conducted matters in a free and easy manner. They were generally in a hurry to return, and had but little time to hear testimony for or against the suspected; yet we cannot learn that they shed blood on more than two occasions.
On one of their excursions they met a half-witted fellow named Handy near the old Indian burial ground, a short distance above the late residence of Hon. James C. Curtis. Handy had lived in Cochecton before the war ; he had been disappointed in a love affair, and to prevent a repetition of his sorrows, had emasculated himself, and was a poor outcast ; had stolen a horse from a whig of Mamakating, and then joined a band of Indians under a chief named Minotto. He spent the greater part of his time in riding about on the stolen animal, imagining he was a man of some consequence, when he met the scouts, whom he mistook for friends. As he came up to them, he exclaimed, "I'm Minotto's man-!" Some of Captain Tyler's company had recognized the horse, and as soon as he declared what he was, his fate was sealed. He was buried on the spot. Several years ago, his bones were uncovered by the action of the water of the river, and were picked up, and used for scientific purposes. We believe that they are still in the possession of a physician of the neighborhood."
History of Sullivan County: Embracing an Account of Its Geology, Climate, Aborigines, Early Settlement, Organization with Biographical Sketches,
James Eldridge Quinlan.
G. M. Beebe & W. T. Morgans, 1873.
Available at Google Books.
"The patriots of Mamakating appointed a Committee of Safety, composed, according to tradition, of Gerardus Van Inwegen, Benjamin Depuy, Thomas Kyte and one of the Swartwouts—all good and true whigs of Peenpack. This committee organized a company of scouts, under the command of Captain Bezaleel Tyler, a refugee from Cochecton, and the scouts occasionally made a visit to this remote neighborhood to "regulate" suspicions characters and make reprisals. [. . .]
When the scouts visited Cochecton, they conducted matters in a free and easy manner. They were generally in a hurry to return, and had but little time to hear testimony for or against the suspected; yet we cannot learn that they shed blood on more than two occasions.
On one of their excursions they met a half-witted fellow named Handy near the old Indian burial ground, a short distance above the late residence of Hon. James C. Curtis. Handy had lived in Cochecton before the war ; he had been disappointed in a love affair, and to prevent a repetition of his sorrows, had emasculated himself, and was a poor outcast ; had stolen a horse from a whig of Mamakating, and then joined a band of Indians under a chief named Minotto. He spent the greater part of his time in riding about on the stolen animal, imagining he was a man of some consequence, when he met the scouts, whom he mistook for friends. As he came up to them, he exclaimed, "I'm Minotto's man-!" Some of Captain Tyler's company had recognized the horse, and as soon as he declared what he was, his fate was sealed. He was buried on the spot. Several years ago, his bones were uncovered by the action of the water of the river, and were picked up, and used for scientific purposes. We believe that they are still in the possession of a physician of the neighborhood."
History of Sullivan County: Embracing an Account of Its Geology, Climate, Aborigines, Early Settlement, Organization with Biographical Sketches,
James Eldridge Quinlan.
G. M. Beebe & W. T. Morgans, 1873.
Available at Google Books.
These events took place during the Revolutionary War on the banks of the Delaware River at Cochecton, Sullivan County, New York ---
"The patriots of Mamakating appointed a Committee of Safety, composed, according to tradition, of Gerardus Van Inwegen, Benjamin Depuy, Thomas Kyte and one of the Swartwouts—all good and true whigs of Peenpack. This committee organized a company of scouts, under the command of Captain Bezaleel Tyler, a refugee from Cochecton, and the scouts occasionally made a visit to this remote neighborhood to "regulate" suspicions characters and make reprisals. [. . .]
When the scouts visited Cochecton, they conducted matters in a free and easy manner. They were generally in a hurry to return, and had but little time to hear testimony for or against the suspected; yet we cannot learn that they shed blood on more than two occasions.
On one of their excursions they met a half-witted fellow named Handy near the old Indian burial ground, a short distance above the late residence of Hon. James C. Curtis. Handy had lived in Cochecton before the war ; he had been disappointed in a love affair, and to prevent a repetition of his sorrows, had emasculated himself, and was a poor outcast ; had stolen a horse from a whig of Mamakating, and then joined a band of Indians under a chief named Minotto. He spent the greater part of his time in riding about on the stolen animal, imagining he was a man of some consequence, when he met the scouts, whom he mistook for friends. As he came up to them, he exclaimed, "I'm Minotto's man-!" Some of Captain Tyler's company had recognized the horse, and as soon as he declared what he was, his fate was sealed. He was buried on the spot. Several years ago, his bones were uncovered by the action of the water of the river, and were picked up, and used for scientific purposes. We believe that they are still in the possession of a physician of the neighborhood."
History of Sullivan County: Embracing an Account of Its Geology, Climate, Aborigines, Early Settlement, Organization with Biographical Sketches,
James Eldridge Quinlan.
G. M. Beebe & W. T. Morgans, 1873.
Available at Google Books.
"The patriots of Mamakating appointed a Committee of Safety, composed, according to tradition, of Gerardus Van Inwegen, Benjamin Depuy, Thomas Kyte and one of the Swartwouts—all good and true whigs of Peenpack. This committee organized a company of scouts, under the command of Captain Bezaleel Tyler, a refugee from Cochecton, and the scouts occasionally made a visit to this remote neighborhood to "regulate" suspicions characters and make reprisals. [. . .]
When the scouts visited Cochecton, they conducted matters in a free and easy manner. They were generally in a hurry to return, and had but little time to hear testimony for or against the suspected; yet we cannot learn that they shed blood on more than two occasions.
On one of their excursions they met a half-witted fellow named Handy near the old Indian burial ground, a short distance above the late residence of Hon. James C. Curtis. Handy had lived in Cochecton before the war ; he had been disappointed in a love affair, and to prevent a repetition of his sorrows, had emasculated himself, and was a poor outcast ; had stolen a horse from a whig of Mamakating, and then joined a band of Indians under a chief named Minotto. He spent the greater part of his time in riding about on the stolen animal, imagining he was a man of some consequence, when he met the scouts, whom he mistook for friends. As he came up to them, he exclaimed, "I'm Minotto's man-!" Some of Captain Tyler's company had recognized the horse, and as soon as he declared what he was, his fate was sealed. He was buried on the spot. Several years ago, his bones were uncovered by the action of the water of the river, and were picked up, and used for scientific purposes. We believe that they are still in the possession of a physician of the neighborhood."
History of Sullivan County: Embracing an Account of Its Geology, Climate, Aborigines, Early Settlement, Organization with Biographical Sketches,
James Eldridge Quinlan.
G. M. Beebe & W. T. Morgans, 1873.
Available at Google Books.
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