[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] ^Stockbridge, Past and Present. "They the Abenaquis to compensate them for served as a corps in the late war, and are their loss. — Johnson Manuscripts, xxiv, in number about fhree hundred." — Tryon, 125. OF HUDSON'S RIPER. 253 in the county of Putnam. Failing to secure redress, they attempted the forcible ejectment of the settlers, and compelled the interference of the military. Subsequently, Nimham, the Wappinger king, in company with chiefs from the Mahicans of Connecticut, visited England and received favorable hearing. Returning to America their claims were thrown into the courts and were there overtaken by the Revolution. Still clinging to their ancient homes, at the close of the war, were considerable numbers of the Esopus and Mahican clans, then generally known as "domestic tribes." Of the former <c Nachnawachena, alias Sanders, chief sachem, accompanied by sachems Hakawarenim, Qualaghquninjon, and Walagayhin, and twenty-three Indians besides squaws and children," came to conference at Kingston, September yth, I77I.1 They were then principally residents of the country back of the Shawangunk mountains, and without special usefulness in the contest which had decided the future rank of their brethren, the Minsis, in the west.