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History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 116 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] A more permanent acquisition was that of the Ochtayhquana-wicroonsf a Tuscarora clan,5 who appeared on the Susquehanna river, in the present county of Broome, ih 1 722, arM around whom subsequently gathered several Mahican families who had previ ously found homes with the Mohawks, but who had become " dis satisfied with the ruling politics 6 of that tribe; " Skaniadaradigk-*In 1740, George Clark, then acting as governor, secured the assent of the Six Nations to the proposition to " take into the covenant chain all the nations of Indians lying to the westward and southward as far as the Mississippi," as the " most likely way to establish an uni versal peace among all the Indians and