It was upon this occasion that Washington wrote the letter above alluded to. which was a communication to congress, requesting that suitable measures be Taken to provide them with necessary clothing. With The close of the Revolution the history of the Mohicans as a people ends completely, and even their name vanishes. From that time they are known no longer as Mohicans, but as " Stockbridge Indians," from the name of a town in central New York, to which they Leaving their ancient seats at the headwaters of the Hudremoved.

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

sou, they settled in 1783-88 near the Oneidas. They received a tract of land six miles square in Augusta (Oneida County) and Stockbridge ly ceded to white pur(Madison County ) . This tract they subsequent chasers by twelve different treaties, executed in the years 1818, 1822, 1823, 1825, 182G, 1827, 1829, and 1830. Some of them removed in 1818 to the banks of the White River, in Indiana, and a large number, in 1821, to lands ou the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, in Wisconsin, which, with other New York Indians, they had bought from the Menominees and Winnebagoes. The Stockbridge tribe numbered 120 souls in 1785 and i'AS in 1818. porPhysically the Indians of Westchester County, as of this entire tion of the country, were remarkable specimens of manhood, capable of marvelous feats of endurance and free from most of the diseases incident to civilized society. The early European writers testify without exception that there were none among them afflicted with bodily deformities. The women delivered their young with singular ease, and immediately after labor were able to resume the ordinary duties of life. The appearance and general physical characteristics of the Indians are thus described by Van der Donck : Thev are well shaped and strong, having pitch-hlack and lank hair, as coarse as a horse's tail, broad shoulders, small waist, brown eyes, and snow-white teeth ; they are of a sallow color, abstemious in food and drink.