which Philip was killed, they again retreated " towards Albany," some two hundred and fifty in number, but were pur sued and attacked by the English, near the Housatonic river, and a number of them killed. The main body of them, how

in

ever, made good their retreat to the Hudson, where a portion of

The Housatonic was originally known

to

the Westenhook river, south of Wesand their Indians."

as

tenhuck.

It

was

(SautAier's Map). the boundary line of the neutrality which

the merciless cruelty of the French

Past and Present, 395 of Missions of United Brethren, 115, 130; Memorials Moravian

Stockbridge,

was established by the Iroquois and the Mahicans with the French Indians in ** The inhabitants of the war of 1704. this Province who lived on the west side

n, 56, Church, i, etc.

of that river followed

"

all

their occupations in husbandry as in times of peace, while at the same time the inhabitants of New England were in their sight exposed

-Colonial History, vi,

371. History

The

Pennacooks,

Schoolcraft

says,

occupied the Coos country, extending from Haverhill to the sources of the

The French classed them Connecticut." among the Mahican tribes, and such they

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

them remained near the Dutch village of Claverack, and the remainder, some two hundred in number, passed over to Potick, an old Mahican village at Katskill. 1 The French immediately made overtures to them, through their associates who had found refuge in Canada, and Connecticut invited them to homes within her borders. Governor Andros, with equal promptness and from a similar motive, 2 invited them to settle at Schaticook, in the present county of Rensselaer, near the confluence of the Hoosic with the Hudson, in company with the Mahicans who