…aid of u four hundred horse and four hundred foot " if 170 THE INDIAN TRIBES they were attacked. The only fruit of his expedition was a treaty which he concluded with the Onondagas, Oneidas and Cayugas, the force of which…

…One Nenenchelus Creek as it approached the Muskingum River Indian year later, Gist passed “a town of the Wyendotts” that he identified towns (see above) on his way to demand release of captives taken as Conchake at the forks at…

…158 THE INDIAN TRIBES CHAPTER VII. THE INDIANS UNDER THE ENGLISH. — TREATIES WITH THE FIVE NATIONS, THE MAHICANS AND THE ESOPUS INDIANS. — THE JESUITS AND THE WAR OF 1689. HE English, under Richard Nicolls, took possession of Fort Amsterdam on…

[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In 1718, he headed the deputation of Indian chieftains at Philadelphia, who signed an absolute release to the proprietaries *for the lands " situate between Delaware and Sus'quehanna, from Duck creek to the mountains on this…

…Two days after, the force reached Fort Amsterdam, where joy bells rang their welcome.1 The Indians now solicited peace, and a treaty was brought about through the intervention of Underhill. Mamaranack, chief of the Sint-Sings^ Mongockonone of the…

…The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies from Kraft, H. C., and J. T. Kraft. 1985. The Indians of Lenapehoking. its Beginning to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744. W. W. Norton, New Seton Hall University Museum, South…

…most effective soldiers that could be pro-64 THE INDIAN TRIBES difficulty, and subsequently the Indian fortresses of the High lands became the receptable of Dutch prisoners. The Dutch knew very little of tribal organizations or tribal laws. To each…

…It is a tradition that conferences were held with them on a plain subsequently owned by Johannes Knickerbocker, some six miles east of the Hudson, and that a veritable treaty tree was planted there by Governor Andros in 1676-7…

…appear to be the fact, except as they were 258 THE INDIAN 7RIBES vited the northern and western Indians thither and delivered to them speeches " setting forth the danger all their nations were in, from the designs of the English…

…That question was satisfactorily in all its details by Minor and Stone, and settled by the treaty of 1768. The only others, and is repeated by Lossing in his question in dispute was that between the

…Land Papers, 699; Cushietunk in the proceedings of the Treaty of Easton, 1758, and in other New Jersey records: Cashighton in 1744; Kishigton in N. Y. records in 1737, and Cashiektunk by Cadwallader Colden in 1737, as the name of…

…George, makes treaty with Iroquois, 158 Castles, mode of constructing, 25 Catholic priests, labors of, 166, 168; law in relation to, 176 Cayugas, one of the Iroquois nations, 35; village of, 98 j accept the war belts of the English…

…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

…adjacent Coshocton County where the largest number of these Delaware Indian communities was located. Some places bearing the name, such as Delaware Avenue located in the city where the Treaty of Greenville (see below) was signed in 1795, mark Delaware…

…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 armed Indian was to come within the line of settlement, and no colonist was to visit the Indian villages without a native to escort him. Hand-some presents were made by Kieft to the chiefs, for the purchase of…

…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…