[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] INDIAN SPECIMENS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. JAMES WOOD. 3(5 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY the settlers, it was naturally with the colonists that their sympathies were enlisted when the struggle with Great Britain began. As early as Vpril 1774, a message was dispatched by the provincial congress of Massachusetts to the Mohicans and Wappingers at their principal village, Westeiihuch, on the western side of the Hudson just below Co-hoes Falls, with a letter requesting their cooperation in the impending conflict. The letter was addressed " To ( :aptain Solomon Ahkannu-au-waumut, chief sachem of the Moheackonuck Indians." Captain Solo-mon thereupon journeyed to Boston, where, in reply to the communi-cation from the congress, he delivered the following impressive ad-dress : Brothers : We have heard you speak by your letter; we thank you for it : we now make answer. T, Brothers : You remember when you first came over the great waters, I was great and you were very little, very small. I then took you in for a friend, and kept you under my arms, so that no one might injure you; since that time we have ever been true friends; there has never been any qnarrerbetween us. But now our conditions are changed. You have become