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Deposition
of David Davis
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Relative
to Maratanza Pond, Ulster County
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From
the Cadwallader Colden Papers, Vol. 7
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Published
in
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“Collections
of the New York Historical Society”
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For
the year 1923
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p.
55-56
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“David
Davis being Duely Sworn Deposeth and Saith that he is 75 years of
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age—that
in the Year 1712 he Lived at Warwick in Orange County With
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Captain
Aske—that at that time a Great Number of Indians Lived there that
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he
often heard the Indians Speak of a Pond on the Mountain between the
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Drownded
Land & Minisink which they called as he thinks Camallo—that
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some
time after being in Company with Lawrance Decker who understood
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the
Indian Language and Some Indians & mentioning the Name of the Pond
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the
Indians & Decker Laugh’d upon which this Deponan(t) asked Decker
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what
they Laugh’d when Decker said it was at the Name of the Pond which
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Signify
a Place where Young Indians & their Wives Mett & made Merry—
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that
in Perticular an Indian Called George who Could talk English….”
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(further
details about dispute over pond omitted)
[August 27, 1765]
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