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| Introduction | 2 |
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| I. | Province of New-York—Origin of the settlement at Albany—Singular possession held by the patron—Account of his tenants | 19 |
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| II. | Account of the Five Nations, or Mohawk Indians—Building of the Fort at Albany—John and Philip Schuyler | 22 |
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| III. | Colonel Schuyler persuades four sachems to accompany him to England—Their reception and return | 27 |
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| IV. | Return of Colonel Schuyler and the Sachems to the interior—Literary acquisitions—Distinguishes and instructs his favourite niece—Manners of the settlers | 30 |
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| V. | State of religion among the settlers—Instruction of children devolved on females—to whom the charge of gardening, &c. was also committed—Sketch of the state of the society at New-York | 34 |
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| VI. | Description of Albany—Manner of living there—Hermitage, &c. | 37 |
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| VII. | Gentle treatment of slaves among the Albanians—Consequent attachment of domestics—Reflections on servitude | 41 |
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| VIII. | Education and early habits of the Albanians described | 46 |
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| IX. | Description of the manner in which the Indian traders set out on their first adventure | 52 |
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| X. | Marriages, amusements, rural excursions, &c. among the Albanians | 62 |
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| XI. | Winter amusements of the Albanians, &c. | 68 |
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| XII. | Lay-brothers—Catalina—Detached Indians | 73 |
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| XIII. | Progress of knowledge—Indian manners | 79 |
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| XIV. | Marriage of Miss Schuyler—Description of the Flats | 87 |
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| XV. | Character of Philip Schuyler—His management of the Indians | 92 |
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| XVI. | Account of the three brothers | 96 |
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| XVII. | The house and rural economy of the Flats—Birds and insects | 98 |
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| XVIII. | Description of Colonel Schuyler’s barn, the common, and its various uses | 104 |
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| XIX. | Military preparations—Disinterested conduct, the surest road to popularity—Fidelity of the Mohawks | 108 |
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| XX. | Account of a refractory warrior, and of the spirit which still pervaded the New-England provinces | 112 |
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| XXI. | Distinguishing characteristics of the New-York colonists, to what owing—Huguenots and Palatines, their character | 115 |
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| XXII. | A child still-born—Adoption of children common in the province—Madame’s visit to New-York | 118 |
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| XXIII. | Colonel Schuyler’s partiality to the military children successively adopted—Indian character falsely charged with idleness | 122 |
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| XXIV. | Progress of civilization in Europe—Northern nations instructed in the arts of life by those they had subdued | 126 |
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| XXV. | Means by which the independence of the Indians was first diminished | 133 |
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| XXVI. | Peculiar attractions of the Indian mode of life—Account of a settler who resided some time among them | 137 |
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| XXVII. | Indians only to be attached by being converted—The abortive expedition of Mons. Barre—Ironical sketch of an Indian | 142 |
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| XXVIII. | Management of the Mohawks by the influence of the christian Indian
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