The Low Dutch boy a prisoner among the Indians: being an account of the capture of Frederick Schermerhorn, when a lad of seventeen years old, by a party of Mohawks, in the time of the Revolution, who took him near the famous Mountain house in the state of New-York, on the Hudson River, and of his sufferings through the wilderness with the Indians, being several years among them. Also, the story of the hermit of Virginia, found in a cave of the Allegany Mountains, in that state: and of the miners of the Minisink, on the Delaware, with some other curious metters.

Date:

1839.

Author:

Priest, Josiah, 1788-1851.

Collecting Area:

Rare Books

Publisher:

E. Williams, printer

Physical Description:

32 pages illustrations 25 cm

Notes:

Published the same year in Albany under title: The Low Dutch prisoner.

Subjects:

Indian captivities and Indian captivities

Genres/Forms:

History and Personal narratives

Names:

Schermerhorn, Frederick, 1762-1847, Seeling, John, and Schermerhorn, Frederick, 1762-1847

Chronological Terms:

1775-1783 fast

Geographic Terms:

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Personal narratives, Minisink (N.Y. : Town), New York (State) Minisink (Town), New York (State) Minisink (Town) Region, and United States