All the natives of the main between the Hudson and the Connecticut, from the Sound on the south to the Green, and the White, mountains on the north, were Mohicans, and their great council fire was established on the Hudson, in the present town of (xreenbush, nearly opposite Albany. The name of the Hudson was " Mahicannituek," or River of the Mahicans; just as the Delaware was called by them " Lenape-u-hi-hi-fiirk-," or the rapid river of the Lenape; on the right bank of which, near where Philadelphia was afterward built, was the place of the Great Council Fire of the Lenni-Lenape confederacy.'

The Iroquois name of the Hudson, according to John R. Bleecker, the old Indian interpreter and surveyor of the middle and latter part of the last century, was "Cahotatea."- Judge Egbert Benson in his "Memoir" says, on the authority of a Palatine settler on Livingston manor, that the Hudson was also called "Shatemuc" by the Indians of that locality.'

' Moulton, 34 and 35.

2 I. N. Y. Hist. Coll., 2, 3.

3 Memoir, N. V. Hist. Soc. Coll., II. series, vol. 2, p. 85.

The Indians of Westchester County were therefore Mahicans, or Mohicans, as it is easier to call them, of the Turkey tribe or clan of the Lenni-Lenape, or Delaware, stock of North American aborigines. They Avere divided into several sub-tribes, cantons, or chieftaincies, each ruled by a Sacchima, as the Dutch called the title, or Sagamore, or Sachem, and owning its own specific location.