History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 50
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] head of the waters falling into the Hud-Mohaiuks, but their more considerable son, all the land on which belonged to emigration was to Pennsylvania. * 96 THE INDUN'TRIBES pie, as may be inferred from Kregier's account of them.1 Their chief, in 1663, was known as Long Jacob. Mahak Niminaw sachem in i682.2 Above the Katskills came the Mechkento-woons of the Mahicans, but with boundary undefined. 6th. The Minnisinks. West of the Esopus country, and in habiting the Delaware and its tributaries were the Minsis proper of whom a clan more generally known as the Minnisinks held the south-western parts of the present counties of Orange and Ulster, and north-western New Jersey. Van der Donck de scribes their district as " Minnessinck of 'tLandt van Bacham," and gives them three villages : Schepinaikonck, Meochkonck, and Macharienkonck, the latter in the bend of the Delaware oppo site Port Jervis, and preserved perhaps in the name Mahacke-meck.3 On Sauthier's map, Minnisink, the capital of the clan,