more extended reference to this war and its results may be pro per.

The eastern Indians were involved in the contest as well

*It is asserted that the Mahicans admitted the conquest of the lands west of the Hudson embraced in the Saratoga

(Schuylerville) tract ; yet from the Johnson Manuscripts it appears that they claimed them in 1767, to "the prejudice," as Johnson says, "of

Mohawk rights."

Johnson Manuscripts, iv, 170, 173. Wassenaar says, " towards the north near the Fresh river." Brodheatfs Hist., i, 732;

Col.

Hist.,

Probably called Soquatucks from Soquans, or Suckquans, their chief sachem, Their classification as Saco Indians (note ix, 66.

475), does not correspond " towards Lake assignment Champlain," (/., 795), or with the very " Two Indian plain statement by Talon tribes, one called the Loups (Mahicans) and the other the Socoquis, inhabit the Col. Hist., ix,

with

their

:

country adjoining the English, and live, in some respect, under their laws, in the same manner as the Algonquin* and Hurons do under those of his majesty. I perceive in these two tribes, by nature arrant and declared enemies of the Iroquois, a great inclination to reside '

the

French."

After

King

among Philip's

THE INDUN TRIBES

as the Mabicam*

In

in

Director

1662, Stuyvesant^ucceeded establishing peace between the contestants, but iPen the Mo hawks carried presents to the English fort at Penobscot to confirm the same, they were attacked and slain. 2 The con

nection of the Hudson river chieftaincies with the war which