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

at

Greenbush, burned the house of Abraham Staats at Clave

rack, and ravaged the whole country on the east side of the North river." The operations of the Jesuit missionaries were seriously hindered ; prisoners taken on either side were burned or eaten ; the Mohawks were weakened and their pride humbled.

Such were the

results of the war at the close of i668.

In the spring of 1669, a Mohawk embassy visited Quebec, and asked that their nation might be " protected from the Mahiwar, a portion of them appear to have returned to the Hudson, where they were incorporated with the Mahicans at Schaticook.

'

The greater portion, however,

ultimately found their way to Canada, where, with fragments of other tribes, they were known as the St. Francis Indians.

Doc. Hist., i, 27 j

in, 482, 562;

Col.

Brodkead's Ne w York, i, 732. The village of Claverack was five It was known miles from the Hudson.

t

by the Indian name of Potkoke.

Hist.,

684, 715. *On the other hand, war was raging between the Mohawks and the furiously iv,