immediate vicinity, they were also offending those of whose existence they had no previous knowledge. 2 Shanasock" an chieftain of the well is as in their

Siwanoys"

represented independent of the island called Manussing. 8th.

The Sequins.

seat

pal its

This was a large chieftaincy its princi was on the west bank of the Connecticut river and

jurisdiction

over

;

all

the

south-western Connecticut clans,

including those designated by Van der Donck as the 0$uirepeys, the Weeks , the Makimanes, and the Conittekooks, and classified by De Forest as the Mahackenos, Unkowas, Paugussetts, Wepa-

Their waugs, ^umnipiacs^ Monteweses, Sicaoggs, Tunxis, etc. lands on the Connecticut were included in a purchase made by the

West

India

Company, June

8,

1633, and on them was

erected the Dutch trading post and fort known as " Good Hope."

Nothing was more

common among

the Indians than to give to a warrior the name of his victim.

Documentary History, iv, 14.

De Forests History Indians of Connecticut.

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

Subse The tract is said to have been sixty miles in extent. quently (1643), Sequin, from whom the chieftaincy took its

name, covered his deed to the Dutch by one to the English, in which he included "the whole country to the Mohawks

By the fortunes of war, the Pequots compelled the

country."

Siwanoys, and a portion of the Montauks, tribute, but this condition was only temporary.

Sequins, the

to pay

them

In the

subsequent war between the English and their allies and the Pequots, the national existence of the latter was destroyed.