[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their fugitive clans at Oghkawaga, and their associates from the Esopus tribes,2 refused for a time to take up the hatchet against the colonists, and held the Tuscaroras to neutrality; while those among the Lenapes, east of the Alleghanies, as well as the domestic Lenape clans, joined them in an earnest support of the patriots. At White Plains, in October, 1776, their united war-cry, " Woach, Woach, Ha, Ha, Hach, Woach " rang out as when of old they had disputed the supremacy of the Dutch, and their blood mingled with that of their chosen allies.3 Active hostilities brought sifting time to the Six Nations. Notwithstanding the efforts of the Johnsons and the pleadings of Brant, they were not united in the alliance with the British, 1 The Mabicans claimed several tracts brothers, that we are sincerely disposed to of land, extending even west of the keep our covenant of peace with you our Hudson. Their principal claim, however, brethren." (Letter to Justices of Kingston