All this through a foolish hankering after war, for it is known to all right-thinking men here that these Indians have lived as lambs among us until a few years ago, injuring no one and affording every assistance to our nation."

There are traditions of the slaughter of large numbers of Indians at other points in the county, but they are believed to be unfounded. Mount Misery, near the Sound, hiis long been said to have derived its name from the slaughter of Indians there by the

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Huguenots of New Eochelle. There is no record of such an engagement, and the story is altogether improbable.

The Indians of Westchester took no jxirt in the Esopus wars of the succeeding years farther up the Hudson, nor did they engage in the French and Indian Wars which rolled so frightfully along the borders of Massachusetts and Connecticut, nor in other wars that followed elsewhere.

The last appearance of Mohegan Indians under arms in Westchester County was during the Revolutionary War, when a company under their chief, Nimham, joined Washington's forces. On the 31s;t of August, 1778, they took part in the engagement at Tibbet's Brook, on the Van Cortlandt's estate, in Yonkers. They fought bravely and over forty of their number were killed. When Nimham saw that they were surrounded by the British horse, he called to his followers to fly, exclaiming, " I am old and will die here." Ridden down by Colonel Siracoe, he wounded that officer, and was on the point of pulling him from his horse, when he was shot by Simcoe's orderly.