…loud voice on his God, BACHTAMO, prayed unto him to conclude something good with the Dutch, and that the treaty about to be formed, in the presence of the sachems assembled,1 should be like the stick he grasped in…

…title deeds which they gave to Van Rensselaer in 1630, the validity of which was never questioned; from the treaty made with them by Kieft, and from their participation in the wars with the Dutch at Fort Amsterdam. To these…

…BENEVISSICA represented them in the treaty at Fort Stanwix in 1764, and again in 1765. In 1774, it is said that a belt was sent to NERERAHHE, a Shawanoe, u but he being a sachem, sent it to the chief…

…150 THE INDIAN TRIBES their treaty of 1656; six Manhattan Indians; thirty-five vo lunteers from the settlers, "and seven of the Honorable Com pany's negroes," with " two pieces of artillery and two wagons." The expedition started on the…

…During the Indian wars connected with the contest with France, he took no part save in the cha racter of a peace-maker. In the spring of 1774, a company of land "agents and traders on the Ohio came in…

…but evidently introduced to represent the sound of an Indian word. What that word was may, probably, be traced from the name given as that of the sachem, _Auronge_ (Treaty of 1645), which seems to be an apheresis of _W…

…During the difficulties with the Indians in the vicinity of Fort Amsterdam in 1645, it is said that Director Kieft visited Fort Orange and made a treaty with the Mohawks and Mahi-cans by which their friendship was secured. Although…

…cessful, and he returned to Fort Amsterdam with a request to the director to visit Esopus and arrange a treaty. 18 140 WE IN DUN TRIBES On the yth of July, Stuyvesant arrived at Esopus, accom panied by Captain Martin…

[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] the name was that of an Indian owner is not well sustained. The evidence of the Dutch description of the bay as Boompje Hoek, meaning, literally, "Small tree cape, corner or angle," and the fact that…

…Y., "Keseshout [FN-1] chief of Rewechnough, or Haverstraw," "Curruppin, brother, and representative of the chief of Rumachnanck, alias Haverstraw." In the treaty of 1645: "Sesekemick and Willem, chiefs of Tappans and Reckgawank," which Brodhead found converted to "Kumachenack, or…

[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] [FN-2] He was engaged in similar work in negotiating the Esopus treaty of 1664; signed the deed for Kaniskek in 1665, and disappears of record after that date. In "History of Greene County," he is…

[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] grand council of the Six Nations, who were invited to assemble " to eat the flesh and drink the blood of a Bostonian;" in other words, to feast on the occasion of a proposed treaty of alliance…

…Shinnecock, now preserved as the name of an Indian village in the town of Southampton, on the east side of Shinnec'ock Bay, for many years in occupation by a remnant of the so called Shinnec'ock Indians who had…

…they never made any agree ment with the king by which their lands followed the fortunes of his wars, nor would they now make a treaty which denied to them the right to make " bargain or cession of lands when

…In Breeden Raedt their name is given as the Reckewackes, and in the treaty of 1643, it is said that Oritany, sachem of the Hackinsacks, " declared he was dele gated by and for those of Tappaen, Reckgawawanc, Kickta-wanc, and…

…no trouble, the one to the other; but whenever the savages understand that any nation not mentioned in this treaty, may be plotting mischief against the Christians, then they will give to them a timely warning, and not admit such…

…In the treaty of 1745, Sessekemick represented them and appears to have acted under the counsel of Oritany. In the sale of Staten island, Taghkospemo appeared as their sachem, and there is 1 '* I, Oratum, am sagamore, and sole der…

[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Y., xiii.) Supposed to have been at LeFever's Falls in Rosendale. (Schoonmaker.) Frudyachkamik, so written in treaty--deed of 1677 as the name of a place on the Hudson at the mouth of Esopus (now…

…The name appears in many orthographies; in 1621, _Wyeck;_ in treaty of 1645, _Wiquaeshex;_ in other connections, _Witqueschreek, Weaquassick,_ and Van der Donck's _Wickquaskeek._ Bolton translated it from the form, _Weicquasguck,_ "Place of the bark kettle," which is obviously…

…The first treaty, "offensive and defensive," which was made was by the English with the Five Nations in 1664-5. The Mahicans had then sold their lands and retired to the Housatenuk, and the Mohawks and their alliant nations had…

…They did sign deeds for possessions which were admitted to be their own, but never a treaty on the part of the nation. Caughnawaga, probably the best known of the Mohawk castles of what may be called the middle era…

…The "tribe" was the sachem's family. * * * * * [FN-1] Aepjin's name appears of record first in 1645 as the representative of the Westchester County clans in negotiating a treaty of peace with the Dutch.