Klarinet Archive - Posting 000253.txt from 2005/01

From: orm1ondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Johann Denner
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:48:20 -0500

Mike Marmer wrote:

> So what happen on January 15, 1690? O:)!

Well.... I'm glad you asked this question.

from "The French Occupation of the Champlain Valley", Guy Omeron
Coolidge, Chapter 6 (http://www.catskill.net/purple/french.htm)

> M. de Frontenac saw his problem clearly: it
> was to revive the courage of the Canadians
> and of his troops as much as to impose his
> authority upon the Indians, allies or enemies.
> Instead of preparing a punitive expedition
> against the Iroquois, M. de Frontenac
> interpreted in his own way the royal
> instructions [snip] January 15, 1690, a
> party of 210 men set out for the south; this
> party was composed of 114 French,
> 80 Iroquois of the Sault and Montagne
> missions under their chief, "le Grand Agnier,"
> and 16 Algonquins

and also (all of this 'sic') from The Story of Godfrey Nims
http://www.nimsfamily.com/GodfreyNims.htm

> The background of Godfrey Nims of
> Deerfield, Massachusetts, common ancestor
> of those with the name of Nims, is shrouded
> in mystery. [snip] the first official record of
> Godfrey Nims appears on September 24,
> 1667, in a Springfield, Massachusetts court
> record.

> "James Bennet, Godfrey Nims & Benoni
> Stebbins, young lads of Northampton being
> by Northampton Commissionrs bound ouer to
> this Corte to answer for diverse crimes &
> misdemeanrs comitted by them, were brought
> to this Corte by ye Constable of yt Towne wch
> 3 lads are accused by Robert Bartlett for that
> they gott into his house two Sabbath dayes
> when all the family were at the Publike
> Meeting: On ye first of wch tymes, they vizt.
> 24 shillings in silver & 7s in Wampum with the
> intention to run away to the ffrench: Al which
> is by them confessed, wch wickedness of
> theires hath also been accompanyd with
> frequent lying to excuse & justify themselves
> especially on Nims his pt, who it seemes hath
> been a ringleader in their vilainys: ffor all wch
> their crimes and misdemeanors this Corte
> doth Judge yt the said 3 lads shalbe well
> whipt on their naked bodys vizt, Nims &
> Bennet with 15 lashes apeece & Bononi
> Stebbins with 11 lashes. And the said Nims &
> Stebbins are to pay Robert Bartlett the
> summe of 4L being counted treble according
> to law for what goods he hath lost by their
> meanes. "

[snip]

> Jeremiah Hull [who was born] January 15, 1690; burned to death in the
house of his father
> Nims, when that home was destroyed by fire,
> January 4, 1693/4.

So there you have it!

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