[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] were is not stated, and can only be inferred from the subsequent treatment of the tribes who were parties to it, who are described as being " linked together in interest," and who were uniformly treated as equals even in the selection of representative chiefs to visit England. At no stage of their history are they repre sented as the dependents of the Five Nations. This will more fully appear from their connection with the wars with the Dutch, 1 Drake states that the Mahicans and chosen leader. This was a severe stroke, their allies marched into the Mohawk and although the war continued, it was country, led by the principal sachem of not with that spirit in which it had been Massachusetts (Pennacooks ? ) named commenced." Josiah, alias Chekatabut, a wise man, z Brodhead's Neiu Tforkfnt 161. and stout man of middle stature. After 3 Assize Record, 11, 732; Brodhead's a "journey of two hundred miles," they New York, n, 181. Colden says that arrived at the Mohawk fort, " when, upon peace was not established until 1673. besieging it some time, and having some The following entry is made in Assize