[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Mahicans with the French Indians in n, 56, 115, 130; Memorials Moravian the war of 1704. ** The inhabitants of Church, i, etc. this Province who lived on the west side 8 The Pennacooks, Schoolcraft says, of that river followed all their occupa-" occupied the Coos country, extending tions in husbandry as in times of peace, from Haverhill to the sources of the while at the same time the inhabitants of Connecticut." The French classed them New England were in their sight exposed among the Mahican tribes, and such they OF HUDSON'S RIVER. 63 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 were established there. This offer was accepted and a flourish ing colony soon came into existence, which was patronizingly called by the Mohawks, our children. The historical narrative need not be further anticipated. In passing, however, it may be remarked that it cannot be admitted