[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] that still overspread the northern part of Rye. This was the case in most of the Connecticut towns the law obliging the inhabitants to reserve to the natives a sufficient quantity of plant-except as slaves. Tradition states that in old times a band of Indians used to visit Rye once a year, resorting to the beach, where they had a frolic which lasted several days. Another place which they frequented as late, certainly, as the middle of the last century, was a spot on Grace Church Street, at the corner of the road now called Kirby Avenue Here a troop of [ndians would come every year and spend the night in a « pow-wow, during which their cries and veils would keep the whole neighborhood awake. Removing, for the most part, northward, the remnants of the West-chester Indians became merged in the kindred tribes of the Mohican nation, whirl, stretched to the limits of the Mohawk country above Albany, and followed their destinies. The Mohicans, though vastly reduced in numbers and territorial possessions, still retained an or-ganized existence and some degree of substantial power until after the Revolution. Having constantly sustained friendly relations with ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS 35