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History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 41 (part 4)

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[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The residence of Canopus is said to have been on a hill in the south-east part of 1 Brodhead locates this chieftaincy at a Wassenaar locates here the Pachany j Haverstraw, but his authorities are not at and Brodhead, on authorities which ap-all clear. For example, it is said that an pear to him sufficient, follows him under offending member of the Hackinsacks, the name of Pachimis. In Breeden had gone " two days' journey off among Raedt they are called Hogelanders, while the Tankitekes 5 "Pacham, the subtle in the treaty of 1644 ( 0' Callaghan, i, chief of the Tankitekes near Haver-302), they are called Nochpeems, a title straw." Haverstraw was not two days' which corresponds with the name of one journey from Hackinsack, certainly. His of their villages on Van der Donck's location is also defeated in the person and map. It is not impossible that the Tan-history of Pacham, whose name he pre-kitekes extended into the highlands on viously gives to a chieftaincy in the the east, and that their chief Pacham highlands. O'Callaghan locates them held sway there, and hence the name j on the east side of Tappan bay, and but the treaty record of 1 644 appears to Bolton in the eastern part of Westchester be a sufficient answer to this theory. It from the deeds which they gave to their is certainly safe to designate them by a lands. The latter is clearly correct. title by which they were officially known. OF HUDSON'S RIVER.