The Mohican power is regarded by Ruttenber as hardly less formidable than that of the Iroquois, and he points out that notwithstanding the boasted supremacy of the Iroquois in war there is no historical evidence that the Mohicans were ever brought under subjection to them or despoiled of any portion of their territory. Yet it is unquestionable that the Iroquois exacted and received tribute from the Long Island Indians; and this could hardly have happened without previously obtaining dominion over the Mohicans. On the other hand, it is certain that the Mohicans never tamely submitted to the northern conquerors. "When the Dutch first met the Mohicans," says Ruttenber, ikthey were iti conflict with the Mohawks (an Iroquois nation), and that conflict was maintained for nearly three-quarters of a cen■ Massachusetts Hist. So< ■. Cull., ix., 101. The editor submitted the above to Mr. William Wallace Tooker for his critical opinion. The following is Mr. Tool; ;er's reply: •• This etymology of Muh heakunnuk, or Muhhecanneuw, is decidedly wrong. Trumbull

irives the true derivation in his ' Names in Connecticut.' p. 31, viz.: "The Mohegans, or Muhhekanneuks. took their tribe name from the Algonkin maingan, " a wolf." ' The maps and records prove this conclusively."

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

able tury, and until the English, who were in alliance with both, were t.'' to effect a permanent settlemen Although the Mohican name was generic for all the tribes on the eastern side of the Hudson, it never occurs, at least in the southern part of New York State, in the numerous local land deeds and other The documentary agreements drawn by the settlers with the Indians. uniis question in district the in ng prevaili name tribal or chieftaincy of formly employed. This finds a good illustration in the affidavit says deponent the which in 1730, 13, October executed Mmhani, King es (Wappmthat"he is - a River Indian of the Tribe of the Wappinoeast shores of o-ers) which tribe was the ancient inhabitants of the of middle the about to York New of City the from River, Hudson's of County present the of part Beekinans patent (in the northern nMayhicco the called Indians river of Dutchess) ; that another tribe g east das (Mohicans) were the ancient inhabitants of the remainin There nation." one e constitut tribes two these «hore of said river; that associated was however, an intimate understanding among all the was tribes and minor divisions of the Mohicans, which in emergencies wars early their in Dutch, The ation. manifest practical given very d to hud against the Indians of Westchester County, were perplexethey were that the Highland tribes, with whom, as they supposed, enemies. their to e assistanc g renderin upon terms of amity, were with the MoThe Mohicans of the Hudson should not be confused called Mohery, territo whose hegans under Uncas, the Pequot chief, a strictly local ganick, lay in eastern Connecticut.