[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] OF HUDSON'S RIVER. 199 ware, at which place, and at Crossweeksung, " in New Jersey, towards the sea," he met with considerable success.1 His brother, John Brainerd, about the same time, established a mission at Bethel, New Jersey, where he drew together a per manent congregation. But the changes of this period were not confined to the Mabicans and Lenapes. It is said that in 1748, a band of fugitive Nanticokes^ under their chief sachem, White, put them selves under the protection of the Six Nations at Conestoga on the Delaware.2 If the Moravian missionaries were correctly informed, their presence was a source of weakness rather than of strength to their allies. Loskiel states that they " instructed the Delawares and Iroquois in preparing a peculiar kind of poison," which was capable of infecting whole townships and tribes with "disorders as pernicious as the plague," and that they " nearly destroyed their own nation by it." Their history, until their final disappearance in the west, was not particularly distinguished, perhaps for the reason stated by Loskiel. A more important acquisition — at least temporarily — by the