History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 112 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Here he had lived but a short time, when, on one of his hunting excursions, he came to the summit of a mountain in the present county of Kent, Connecticut. Look ing down from this eminence he saw the Housatonic winding through a narrow but fertile valley, shut in by wooded hills.-Delighted with the scene, he returned to his wigwam, packed up his property, and journeyed with his family and followers to this new found land of quiet and plenty. From here he issued invitations to his old friends and to the Mabicans of the Hudson. Immigrants flocked in, and in ten years from the time of settlement, it was thought a hundred warriors had collected around him.2 To his village he gave the name of Pishgachtigok, which had already been applied to that of the fugitive Pennacooks on the Hudson, and which there as well as on the Hudson,3 was corrupted into Schaticook, by which it was known to the authorities of Connecticut, who subsequently established there a reservation on, which the name of Mauwehu was represented for five generations.4 What relation this