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CHERRY VALLEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 85 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CHERRY

CHERRY VALLEY , a See also:

VILLAGE

village of Otsego See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, New See also:

York, U.S.A., in a township of the same name, 68 m. N.W. of See also:

Albany. Pop. (1890) 685; (1900) 772; (1905) 746; (1910) 792; of the township (1910) 17o6. It is served by the See also:

DELAWARE

Delaware & See also:

Hudson railway. Cherry Valley is in the centre of a See also:

rich farming and dairying region, has a See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair factory, and is a summer resort with See also:

SULPHUR

sulphur and lithia springs. It was the See also:

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of a terrible See also:

MASSACRE

massacre during the See also:

War of See also:

Independence. The village was attacked on the 11th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1778 by See also:

Walter See also:

Butler (d. 1781) and See also:

Joseph See also:

Brant with a force of 800 See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians and Tories, who killed about 50 men, See also:

WOMEN

women and See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, sacked and burned most of the houses, and carried off more than 70 prisoners, who were subjected to the greatest cruelties and privations, many of them dying or being tomahawked before the See also:

CANADIAN

Canadian settlements were reached. Cherry Valley was incorporated in 1812.

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