[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] sent off a colony from their principal castle, to a point about twelve miles from Oneida lake, where they established a settle ment which they called Canowaroghere or Onawaraghharee,7and which was subsequently recognized as u the second Oneida castle." Several families of the Long island clans, dispossessed of their lands and surrounded by European settlers, were subse quently added to the colony,8 giving to it influence in point of numbers. Meanwhile the Esopus clans who had not followed the for tunes of their kindred, the Minsis, maintained their succession of sachems and held annual conferences with the justices at Kings ton.9 Thither came Ankerop, chief sachem, in 1722, and complained that a tc white man had offered violence to an Indian of Aughquages and Mahicanders under Thomas, an Aughquage chief. — Ibid, 187. The Mahicans here spoken of were entirely distinct from those who settled at an early period among the Lenapes, or those who were subsequently located at Otsiningo. — Ibid., 104. 1 Colonial History, vi, 983. Supposed to be a remnant of the Powhattan con federacy, who were removed under the treaty with Virginia in 1722, and called by Gallatin Sachdagughroonas. The date of their settlement at the north corre sponds with that of the treaty with Vir ginia. — Gallatin, 58, 59. 3 Their village was on the south bank of the Susquehanna, opposite Bingham-ton.