Re: Slingerland Family
SLINGERLAND, BRATON, REYNOLDS
Posted By: Sue Simonich (email) In Response To: Slingerland Family (jesse Crisler)
Date: 2/25/2005 at 12:14:20
The New York Herald - August 21, 1849
THE REMOVAL OF THE STOCKBRIDGE INDIANS. - This tribe, a remnant of the Leni Lenape or Mohican confederacy, have sold their land, lying on Fox river, Wisconsin, and in their agreement with the government have the privilege of selecting two townships at any point west of the Mississippi. They number in all about three hundred, and are entirely civilized. Thy have advanced to a high standard as farmers and mechanics, and are mostly well educated and devout professors of religion. A delegation composed of Austin E. Quincy, Jeremiah Slingerland, Elisha Konkpot, and Joel Konkapot, Moses Charles and Thos Snake being some of the principal men of the tribe, visited this region last week, upon a tour of observation. They were much pleased with the Sioux country, south of the St. Peter's - so far as they had an opportunity of examining - and in all probability will settle in some part of that district so soon as the government comes in possession of the lands. Mr. Slingerland is a minister of the gospel among them. We learned in conversation with him, that they desire, if they settle in this quarter to locate as near the Sioux as possible, in order that their progress in civilization and Christianity may have a beneficial influence upon that untutored tribe. - St Paul's (Mo.) Register, August 4.
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