" to Hackinsack, Tappen, and Staten Island," had visited him renew and acknowledge the peace between them and the Christ ians ; also, between

them and the Maquas and

Sinnecas, the

which they say they are resolved to keep inviolable." He ordered that the matter be " put on record to be a testimony It was about against those that shall make the first breach." this time that tradition gives the story of a great battle between

O'Callaghan's

New

Netherlandy n,

417.

Colonial History, in, 67, Assize Reeordsy n, 408.

OF HUDSON'S RWER.

the contestants in the Minnisink country, and the probabilities But whatever the are that the peace spoken of was its result. a north-western family of the Minsis, as well as the Tappans, were under the obligations of subjugation in 1680, for Paxinosa or Paxowan as he was sometimes called,

date, the Minnisinks,

sachem of the former, was required to furnish forty men to join In 1693-4, the Mohawks in an expedition against the French.

The inference is that

these tribes paid tribute to the Senecas*

3 was not made peace which was made with the Minsis until after the English came in possession of the province, that

if the

the subjugation of the Lenapes did not take place at an earlier period.

And this conclusion agrees with the almost infallible test of to lands. The Iroquois never questioned the sales made by

title

the

Lenapes or Mimis east of the Delaware

river,

but

only

asserted the rights acquired by conquest in accepting, in 1743, the clearly false boundaries which the proprietaries of Pennsyl