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.

There are many reasons for presuming that the Sequins were an enlarged family of Wappingers, perhaps the original head of the whence its conquests were pushed over the southern

tribe from

part of the peninsula.

9th.

The Wappingers.

North of the Highlands was the

chieftaincy historically known as the Wappingersf and acknow

ledged as the head of the chieftaincies of the tribal organization of that name occupying the territory from Roeloff Jansen's kill *The deed recites the agreement be

transaction is made to appear " with the

Van Curler, on the part of the " company, and the sachem named Wapyknowledge of Magaritiune," the Wappinoo chief of Sloop's bay. O'Callaghan,

tween

quart or Tatteopan, chief of Sickenames river, and owner of the Fresh river of

New Netherland, called in their tongue Connetticuck," for the purchase and sale of the lands named, " on condition that all tribes might freely, and without fear or danger," resort thither for purposes of