Mohikanders ;" another defines the tract conveyed, as " the fast bank where the house of Machacnotas stood," and another " Schotack or conveys an island called Aepjen's island." Two immense tracts were sold to Robert Livingston, July I2th, 1683, and August loth, 1685, and subsequently included in a The grantors were patent to him for the manor of Livingston. the following " Mahican Indian owners :" Ottonowaw, a crip ple Indian ; Tataemshaet, Oothoot, Maneetpoo, and two In dian women named Tamaranchquae and Wawanitsaw, and

The lands between Livingston and Van Rensselaer were taken up in small parcels, some of them others in the deed named. 1

without purchase.

Sales east of the Taghkanick mountains, in the

state of Connecticut, are recorded, and among others that of a

tract to Johannes Diksman and Lawrence Knickerbacker, now

Salisbury, the grantors being Konaguin, Sakowanahook and others " all of the nation of Mohokandas." Al most touching the shore of the southern extremity of Lake in the town of

Champlain,

" Mahican Abraham"

indicating tribal possession

asserted his proprietorship, In miles north of Albany. seventy

view of these records there is no difficulty in determining the value of the assertion that the Mahuans were driven back to the Housatonic " by their implacable enemies, the Mohawks."

The

more important proposition is, how came the former west of the Hudson, if the prowess of their rivals was so supreme ? Reference has already been made to the capital or council-fire That the ori of the nation as having been at Westenhuck. records and at the was affirmed Dutch Schodac is ginal capital by by the traditions of the tribe, and accords with the interpretation Like other tribes, they recoiled before the of the name itself. and sometime between 1664 and 1734, removed their national seat to Westenhuck where it was known