great deputies were Pennsylvania of the Mahikan nation at Westenhuck, with which satisfac they appeared much pleased, and as a proof of their in

:

council

tion made Abraham, an assistant at Gnadenhutten, a captain."

Again

u The

:

unbelieving

Indians

at

Westenhuck, made

several attempts to draw the Christian Indians in Shekomeko "Brother David Bruce," it. is added, "paid into their party."

Westenhuck, by invitation of the head chief of the Mahican nation," of whom it is said " the above mentioned

visits to

:

chief of Westenhuck, who had long been acquainted with the This chief was Konapot, whose brethren, departed this life."

name has been preserved in the records of the Stockbridge " the principal mission, and who is described by Hopkins as man among the Muhhekaneok of Massachusetts." By the appears that, in 1736, the Wes Boston, accompanied by the chiefs

records of Massachusetts,

tenhuck sachem

from Hudson's

visited

it

when

river, as one people, while the former,

known as the Stockbridges, came to Albany in 1756, and were received as the actual representatives of the Mahicam, instead York. of those known as such to the authorities of Tl\e

New

fact that Westenhuck was the point selected for missionary labor,

by the Societyfor the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, is additional proof of its importance, though the extremities of the nation withered under the adverse influences by which they

were surrounded, the heart remained in vigor long after that of its rivals had been consumed. IV. ist.