[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The people -of Kingston cared little for their own improvement, much less for that of the Indians, and preferred rather to earn for themselves the sobri quet of " the Sodom of New York,"1 than to perform those acts of charity and mercy which spring from a proper apprecia tion of the Christian character. Had they followed the exter minating policy of the Puritans it would have been more to their credit. The Wappingers, too, maintained an organization on the Hudson amid all the changes which surrounded and attended them. Many of them had been drawn off to new homes; a few appeared among the Moravians and at Stockbridge, but the seat of the tribe remained in the highlands.2 Nimham, who was made chief sachem in 1740, gave them prominence by ser vice in the field and by his persistent efforts to recover lands of which they had been defrauded. The result of these and other changes was, that at the close of the half century the Lenapes had an active, vigorous organ ization of five tribes j the Iroquois^ one of seven tribes, and the 1 Memorials of the Moravian Church, sions with the addition of the Shawanoes i, 58. and Mafricans. There were also several 1 Colonial History, vn, 869. detached clans of minor importance asso-8 Including the-original Lenape divi-elated with them. O.F HUDSON'S RIPER. 203 Mohicans, although divided by provincial lines, one that could still call its followers from Quebec to Manhattan.