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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 17 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] In 1780 the surviving remnant of the Mohican warriors, some twenty men, were honorably discharged from the army, and returned to their homes. It was upon this occasion that Washington wrote the letter above alluded to. which was a communication to congress, requesting that suitable measures be Taken to provide them with necessary clothing. With The close of the Revolution the history of the Mohicans as a people ends completely, and even their name vanishes. From that time they are known no longer as Mohicans, but as " Stockbridge In-dians," from the name of a town in central New York, to which they removed. Leaving their ancient seats at the headwaters of the Hud-