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

followed cannot be distinctly traced, but there is some data upon the subject. In Kregier's Journal of the Second Esopus War, it is said that residents at Bethlehem, in the present

county of Albany, were warned, in the fall of 1663, by a " five friendly Indian, to remove to a place of security ; that Indian nations had assembled together, namely the Mahikanders, the Kats kills , the Wappingers, those of Esopus, besides

another tribe of Indians that dwell half-way between Fort " that their " place of meeting was Orange and Hartford ; on the east side of Fort Orange river, about three (nine) miles

from Claverack," 3 and that they were "about five " Hans the Norman 4 arrived at hundred strong." Again the redoubt with his yacht from Fort Orange ; reports that full

inland

:

at Claverack, on the about three east side, (nine) miles inland, but he knows not with

seven thousand Indians had assembled

The intent soon became apparent. JJnder date of June 21, 1664, Brodhead writes: "War now broke out The Mahicans attacked the Mohawks, destroyed cattle again. what intent." 5