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.

and

others

Local research would, believed, develop forty villages in the territory of the Mahicans. it

is

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

the voice of a civilized state ; in other respects, as free as the

most perfect democracy. Had the lands upon which they were located been sold in small tracts and opened to settlement at an observation and record early period, they would not have escaped but the wilderness was a sealed book for many years, and there -,

are those who still write that it was without Indian habitations.

Such, too, was the dream in regard to the^lands of the

Iroquois,

until Sullivan's blazing torch lighted the hills and valleys with

the crackling flames of forty burning villages.

On the 8th of

.-ipril,

1680, the Mahicans sold their land, on

the west side of the Hudson, to

much thereof as was " called

Van Rensselaer, or at least so

Sanckhagag," a tract described as

extending from Beeren island up to Smack's island, and in The grantors were Paep-Sikenebreadth two days' journey."