causes the very opposite of those which led to the preservation

of the location of the latter, permitted the former to go down with so many unrecorded facts relating to the tribe, as well as to their neighbors, the Mohawks, whose four castles only appear on

record instead of seven

& affirmed by the Jesuit missionaries.

But these subdivisions are of no practical importance. In action they were as unknown as the merest hamlet in

tribal

Brodbead, i, 77 ; Albany Records ; Stockbridge Tradition.

Literally Bear's

County

island, so called

no

doubt from the totem of its occupants. 3 " Shacomico, a place in the remotest part of that county (Dutchess) inhabited chiefly by Indians, where also live three Moravian priests with their families in a blockhouse, and sixteen Indian wigwams round about it." Documentary History ,

in, 1014.

"The place as to its situation, was

sufficiently unpleasant, being encompassed

with mountains and woods." Diary. village site

Brainerd's

The Indians removed from this to Stockbridge, in* 1744. The

of the hut which Brainerd occupied

marked by a pine tree growing up from the centre of what was once his only room, and the bridge near by is called Brainerd's Bridge. Stockbridgc, Past and is

Present, 69.

Westenhuck and Stockbridge were

distinct places. The former was among the hills south of Stockbridge. Sauthier's Map. After the establishment

two

of the reservation and mission at Stockbridge the Indian village was mainly, if not entirely, deserted. Many of the tribe

removed

to Pennsylvania, united with the mission.