These Indians, as well all the others with whom Hudson came in contact, belonged to a great aboriginal nation, or stock, termed the Lenni-Lenape. This was the name of that great confedera cy of Indian tribes, which, as Heckewelder states, extended from the mouth of the Potomac northeastwardly to the shores of Massachusetts Bay, and the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont, and westwardly to the Alleghanies and the Cattskills,* and were afterwards known as the Delawares. Beyond the Lenni-Lenape, still further to the northeast, and extending to the Gulf ot St. Lawrence, and up the magnificent river of that name to the Great Lakes, was a second great nationality or confederacy of Indian tribes, that of the Hurons or Adirondacks, sometimes called the Algonquins. The term "Algonkin" or "Algonquin" is

1 Juet's Journal of Hudson's Voyage, I. N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll. Second Series, 325. These colors were those of William I., Prince of Orange-- Nassau. The orange bar was changed to red after the death of William II. in 1650. .\s thus altered the Hag of Holland continues to this day. de Jonge, cited in I. Brodhead, 32.5 n.

!That any earlier navigator «<u7eci up the Hadton, as baa lately been alleged, is, as yet, without sufficient proof.

s Juefs Journal, I. N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., Second Series, 324, 326, 330.

♦ Moulton'8 Hist. N. Y., 95 and 226.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

used, however, by many writers to describe all the aborigines east of the Mississippi and south of the j St. Lawrence, from the singular and very striking fact, that but one language was spoken throughout this entire region which was styled the "Algonquin" or "Algonkin." All the Indians Avithin these limits j understood each other. There were only comparatively slight local variations. They required no interpreters, except to communicate with white men.