[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] considerable chiefs of their nation." — the Iroquois, as the Ottaivas were aiding Colonial History, ix, 464. " The general the French." The number of their in chief of the entire Iroquois nation." — warriors stated in the text is no d<Wbt Ibid., 465. exaggerated, but there is no question that 2 The cooperation of the Mahicans they could at any time bring more war-with the Iroquois is frequently referred to riors to the field than the Mohaiuks. — in the French records, and in language Colonial History, ix, 259, 460, 466, etc. 22 172 THE INDIAN TRIBES called upon their allies to unite together to defend the territory which France had invaded. In addition to this a special meet ing of the council was held at Fort James, and a bill passed for levying a tax of a " penny in the pound out of the estates of the freeholders," to aid in defraying expenses. Palisades were ordered for fortifying Albany and Schenectady, and the Five Nations were requested to send down " their wives, children and old men, lest the French fall upon them in winter; that they who come be settled, some at Katskill, and along the river," where they would be in security and in readiness to assist in the common defense should it be necessary. Every tenth man of