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Field name | Value |
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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 |