people are known and called

by all the western, northern and some of the southern nations by the name of Wappanachki, which the Europeans have corrupted into Apenaki, Openagi, All these Abenaquis, and Abenakis. names, however differently written, and improperly understood by authors, point to one and the same people, the Lenape, who are by this compound word called People at the rising of the Sun, or as we would say Eastlanders ; and are

acknowledged by near forty tribes, whom

we call nations.

All these nations, de

rived

from the same stock, recognize

each

other

as

Wappanachki, among them is a generic name."

which Heckeiu elder.

possessions on the Hudson are clearly defined. Onderis Hocque, one of their chiefs, declared to

Their

territorial

the Esopus clans, at the treaty of 1660 : " Ye must not renew this This quarrel. is not your land There it is our land. ; fore repeat not this, but throw down the Tread it so deeply in the earth hatchet. that it shall never be taken up again."

In the controversy in reference to the Hardenbergh tract, in 1769, one Dr. Shuckburgh stated that he was present at a conference in 1734, in which the chiefs of Schoharie, Seth and Hance, " told the Esopus or Delawares that if they ever attempted to sell lands west of the Kats-

An hills, they would kill them." Oneida Indian, whose father was chief sachem of Oneida, " and their oracle in kill

of

matters

all