[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] of £70, that he had then (1689) been Saugerties creek, and Katskill to a vil-absent with the Ottaivas for ten years, and lage at the junction of the Kader's and that his brother " intending to go to the the Katskill creek, west of the present wars," wished Sanders to keep the land village of Katskill. These two villages " till his brother pays him for it." — Land perhaps explain the text. Papers, in, 22. 178 THE INDIAN TRIBES reported that they had sent twelve men to the Senecas, and should send more," and the Kicktawancs and other Westchester families stated that they had sent six of their number.1 The Schattcook Indians were actively employed. In addition to their services as scouts, a large number of them joined in the pursuit of the French after the destruction of Schenectady, and also in the several expeditions against Canada. When the ex pedition under Winthrop returned, Captain John Schuyler voluntarily embarked, at Wood creek, with a company Consist ing of " twenty-nine English soldiers, one hundred and twenty Mohawk and Scahook Indians,2 to go to Canada and fight the enemy." This force made the successful attack on the French beyond Lake Champlain, already.noticed, and returned to Al bany with nineteen prisoners and six scalps. The Wappingers, or " Indians of the Long Reach," as they were called, accepted the invitation to unite in the war, and with their head sachem and " all the males of the tribe able to bear arms," went to Albany,3 and from thence to the field.