[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] " Brothers : When you have any trouble, come and tell it to us, and we will help you." The occasion for the services of the Mahlcans was not long delayed. When the alarm came up from Lexington, a year later, they took the field, and participated in the battle of Bunker Hill on the seventeenth of June. From thence Cap tain Solomon, or Captain Hendrik as he was subsequently-known, repaired with his warriors to the council at German 272 THE INDIAN TRIBES Flats, and, at its adjourned session at Albany, renewed the pledge of his people in language most eloquent. "Depend upon it," said the noble chieftain; " depend upon it we are true to you, and mean to join you. Wherever you go, we will be by your sides. Our bones shall die with yours. We are determined never to be at peace with the red coats, while they are at variance with you. We have one favor to beg. We should be glad if you would help us to establish a minister amongst us, that when our men are gone to war, our women and children may have the advantage of being instructed by him. • If we are conquered, our lands go with yours; but if you are victorious, we hope you will help us to recover our just rights."1 Wherever the influence of the Alahlcans could reach, it was exerted among their brethren of the west.