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. The latter was same original stock New England tribe, and though probably of theidentifi ed with it. never was nation, n Mohica as the Hudson River Westchester is, that nds, The entire country south of the Highla of the incies chiefta by ed occupi was County and Manhattan Island, doheld also gers Wappm The ns. Wappinger division of the Mohica their subminion over a large section of the Highlands, through beyond the At the east their lands extended r bes, the Nochpeems. by those of the Sequins. The latter, havmet Connecticut line being were, i is believed fn jurisdiction thence to the Connecticut River, the original head of the s perhap « gers, Wappm of family ed enlarg an over the southern pa tribe from whence its conquests were pushed of the territory of the extent south of the peninsula.-' The north and They first sold their miles. sixty some Sequin Ts said to have been ny ami upon them Compa India West lands June 8, 1633, to the Dutch ; but ten years Hope: Good « of post g tradin Dutch the ed Erect " the whole ing embrac h, Iter tney executed a deed to theOn Englis Island were the Canarsie , Long /country k Mohaw the to y countr cocks, Corchaegs, ManRo^aways, Merricks, Massapeags, Matine