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Collection Reference Number GLC03107.02016
From Archive Folder The Livingston Family Papers [014] 1688 
Title Deposition of Symon Groot
Date 2 July 1688
Author Livingston, Robert (1654-1728)  
Document Type Government document
Content Description The deposition explains that Symon Groot came to the colony in 1638 to trade with the West India Company, and throughout his time here he has repeatedly endangered himself by fighting with the Mohawks in their war with the French and their Indians. He also explains the practice of taking hostages among the French and Indians, and how the Indians learned to torture prisoners from their experience with the French. Document is marked as a copy.
Subjects American Indian History  Mohawk Indian  France  Canada  Global History and Civics  Military History  Atrocity  Merchants and Trade  Commerce  Immigration and Migration  Prisoner  Prisoner of War  
People Livingston, Robert (1654-1728)  Groot, Symon (1602-1699)  
Place written Albany, New York
Theme Native Americans; Foreign Affairs; Merchants & Commerce
Sub-collection The Livingston Family Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859