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

The Sicke 0"Callaghan,i, 150. names, from whom the title was obtained, " are described as living between the Brownists (the Puritans) and the Hol trade.

"

all the tribes on the landers," and that northern coast were tributary to them."

Sequin denied the validity of their deed and sold to the English. The Dutch quarreled with the Sickenames (Pequots),

and the latter invited the English to settle at

New Haven

with them

;

also,

subsequently quarreled

and were destroyed.

O'Callaghan, i, 157; of Connecticut. a *

De Forest's Indians

Farmington Town Records, De Forest. The tradition is recited by O'Callaghan

that the Sequins had original jurisdiction, but lost it after three pitched battles with

the Pequots. There is a strange mixing up of tribes in the story, and especially in that of the original sale, in which the

" After the overthrow 149, 150, 157. of Sequin, the Pequots advanced along the coast and obliged several tribes to pay tribute, and sailed across the sound and extorted tribute from the eastern inhabit ants of Sewan-Hackey. De Forests History Indians of Connecticut, 61.