[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In regard to the former, the affidavit of King Nim-ham is on record, under date of October 13, 1730, in which it is stated that the deponent was "a River Indian of the tribe of the Wappinots, which tribe was the ancient inhabitants of the eastern shore of Hudson's river, from the city of New York to about the middle of Beekman's patent," in the northern part of the present county of Dutchess; " that another tribe of River Indians called the Mayhiccondas were the ancient inhabitants of the remaining eastern shore of said river; that these two tribes constituted one nation." The testimony in regard to the Montauks is not so clear and positive, but is sufficiently so to indicate their status at the time of the discovery, whatever may have been their subsequent political relations. On the earliest maps the island is assigned to the Mahicans. DeRasieres, writing in 1626, states that its occupation was then by the "old Manhattans," and intimates that they were conquered "by the Wappenos." While all the eastern Indians were called Wap-penos, x or Wapenacki, the reference, in this instance, is clearly specific, not general, and evidently refers to the Wappinoo or Wappinger branch of the Mahicans, who, whatever may have tainly.