[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1737), where a number of Indians live, — be reported that I am dead, as it is forty Shawanos and Mahicanders." — Memorials years since I left that country." Signed, Moravian Church, i, 69. " Mohekin Abraham, or Keeperdo." 3 In the Manuscripts of Sir William The tract was covered by a patent to Johnson, in the State Library (vol. ai, Philip Skene, and embraced what was p. 40), is a letter endorsed : " Letter from known as Skenesborough, now White-Ohio concerning land — rec'd it Oct. 1 6th, hall, in the present county of Washington. 1771." This letter was from Mohekin Skene located thirty families on it in 1761, Abraham, who writes : " I understand The Mahicans at Stockbridge claimed the Mohikans at; Stockbridge are wanting the ownership, but it does not appear that to sell a certain tract of land lying above the tract was ever paid for. The letter Albany, from the mouth of Wood creek of Keeperdo is important as defining more upwards." This sale he requested to have clearly the extent of the Mahican country, stopped as he was the owner, that he was OF HUDSON'S RIPER. ^ 195 As this band retreated towards the west, another appeared from the east in the territory of the Mabicans. Gideon x Mau wehu, a Pequot chief, originally of some prominence in that unfortunate nation, and whose natural abilities were of no ordinary stamp, with a few of his followers found a home in the present town of Dover, on Ten Mile river, in the county of Dutchess.