History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 179
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] once of great value to us, and we appre hend that neither time nor distance, nor the non-use of our rights, has at all affected them, but that the courts here would consider our claims valid were we to exercise them ourselves, or delegate them to others. It is not, however, our 294 THE INDIAN TRIBES On a small reservation on Long island the Montauks have still a representation, though with scarce a member of pure blood. On the third of March, 1702, they made an agreement with the English in which the rights of each were definitely fixed, and resided in peace with their neighbors until after the revolution, when they made claim to lands which they had previously ceded, but without success. The first to welcome Hudson's wandering bark, they are now the last representatives of the tribes which once held dominion on Sewanhackie.