Thank you Elizabeth, I will try to get GOTHAM. I will be anxious also to see if my Dingman's are mentioned. Appreciatively, marilyn Elizabeth W. Knowlton wrote: >Message text written by INTERNET:KNOWLTON-L@rootsweb.com > > >>Hello Elizabeth, >> >> >May I ask if I missed the sources for these accounts - because I sure >would like said sources. >Appreciatively, >marilyn< > >I assume you mean for the Westchester county massacre >because the other was from Clyde. > >I read it in a history of Westchester county and had to put >it down after reading that--was in a library and did not >write down a source, just have never been able to forget >it. Ephraim Knowlton (24A) arrive ca 1700. > >In answer to your query, I went to GOTHAM, which I own, >by Edwin G Burrows and Mike Wallace, winner of >Pulitzer prize and an awfully good read (1382 pgs) >with References, Bibliography, and Index. Since >Westchester is not its focus, this is all it said, pg 39, >"winter of 1643-44," won't type out the atrocities, >but it ends: > >"In a later raid on an Indian camp near Pound Ridge >in Westchester, Underhill [Indian fighter] and the >Anglo-Dutch force were said to have slaughtered >somewhere between five hundred and seven hundred more >[Indians] with a loss of only fifteen wounded." > >The way the book is set up, there are 21 references cited >for this section of 4 pages, but you cannot tell (maybe) without >looking up each title which reference is for which event or >fact. GOTHAM is in nearly any large library nowadays, >so you could look at the 21 citations there. If this is impossible >and you really need them, email me privately and I will >photocopy all concerned and mail them to you. > > >Elizabeth W. Knowlton > > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > >