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,

Mohegans, who had been joined by the Abcnaqui nations. Shea's Charle-voix, m, 45 ; Drake 's Book of the Indians.

Norman's kill,

in

Albany, takes

name from this person.

Documentary History, iv, 83, 85. Brodhead, n, 99, 146.

its

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

king of France, to whom their country now In this they were successful belonged by'the force of arms." cans

by the

so far at least as to secure the cooperation of the Jesuit mission aries

in

resisting

an attack by the Mahicans on the palisaded

village of Caghnawaga.

This attack was made on the eighteenth

of August, 1669. The Mahicans retired after two hours and the Mohawks, descending the river in canoes, hid fighting; themselves below them in an ambuscade which commanded the road to Schenectady, at a place called Kinaquariones, where a con flict

ensued in which, although at first successful, the Mohawks

were put

to flight. 1

The Mohawks then induced the Oneidas,

Onondagas and Cayugas to make common cause with them ; and four hundred confederate warriors went to surprise a Mahlcan fort