[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] But whatever the date, the Minnisinks, a north-western family of the Minsis, as well as the Tappans, were under the obligations of subjugation in 1680, for Paxinosa or Paxowan as he was sometimes called, sachem of the former, was required to furnish forty men to join the Mohawks in an expedition against the French.1 In 1693-4, these tribes paid tribute to the Senecas* The inference is that if the peace which was made with the Minsis 3 was not made until after the English came in possession of the province, that the subjugation of the Lenapes did not take place at an earlier period. And this conclusion agrees with the almost infallible test of title to lands. The Iroquois never questioned the sales made by the Lenapes or Mimis east of the Delaware river, but only asserted the rights acquired by conquest in accepting, in 1743, the clearly false boundaries which the proprietaries of Pennsyl