[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] German mode of pronouncing Job. Wa-lake or Indian pond, sarnapah was the ruling chief at Sheko-3 On the east side of the Housatonic meko. He was a man of remarkable opposite the mouth of Poughtatuck creek, powers of mind, and in whose mien "was 4Or Wyatiack, near Salisbury, Litch-the majesty of a Luther." He died of field Co., Conn. small pox at Bethlehem, Aug. 2,7, 1746. 198 THE INDIAN TRIBES houses were established, the success at the latter being greater than that at Shekomeko. In this field Rauch, Gotleib, Butt-ner and Samuel Mack labored for twenty years, and until driven out by persecutions which their success provoked. In the war of 1755, they were accused of being emissaries of the French j subsequently they were "arrested under the law of 1700, forbid ding the presence of priests in the province without a license from the government; the traders, whose traffic in rum was mate rially abridged by their teachings, lost no opportunity to misre present them and accuse them falsely; finally, they were ejected from the lands at Shekomeko under a claim that they belonged to the white people and not to the Indians. After a temporary rest at Wechquadnach and Pisgachtigok, they removed, with many of their followers, to Pennsylvania, where they formed a colony to which they gave the name of Freidenshutten, (tents of peace). Their stay here was short.