History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 93 (part 3)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Not less so was the treaty stipulation that the privileges of trade were to be uniform, in all English plantations, to Indians in alliance with the govern ment, and the fact that such alliance secured the friendship of the "great sachem." Tranquillity was soon established, and although the Mohawks and the Mahicans and Abenaquis, at the east, and the Senecas and Minsis, at the south, continued their struggle, the conflict was not around the centres of civilization. Gradually the Minsis, more immediately represented on the Hudson, yielded to the superior advantages possessed by their enemies, or to the inducements which the English offered; while those more remote made common cause with the French. O.P HUDSON'S RIPER. 163 The annual renewal of the treaty with the Esopus Indians,