Their treatment under the English of New Jersey, was liberal and just.

No bloodshed or violence was

permitted, nor occupation of their lands without purchase. Their possessions finally dwindled down to about three thousand acres in the township of Eversham, Burlington county, on which a church was erected. This land they obtained permis sion to

sell, in

1802, when the remnant of the clan removed

lake, N. Y., and from thence, in 1824, to a tract on Lake Michigan, where they united with the Brothertons.

to

Oneida

3d.

The Hackinsacks.

The territory occupied by this chief

embraced the valley Their number, in 1643, is stated at a thousand souls, of whom about three hundred were called Ack-kin-kas-hacky, and

taincy was of the Hackinsack and Passaic rivers.

warriors.

Their council-fire was kindled

aboriginal

took

for

Communipau.

Deed for Raritan meadows, 1651; Deed to Denton and others, 1664. 3 " a nation The district inhabited

by

Raritangs, is situated on a fresh water river, that flows through the centre of the low lands which the Indians

called

This vacant territory lies between two high mountains, far distant This district the one from the other. was abandoned by the natives for two reasons ; the first and principal is, that

cultivate.

finding themselves unable

to

resist

the

They

at

Gamoenapa, the

prominent part

in

Southern Indians, they migrated further inland 5 the second, because this country

was flooded every spring." Documentary Some of our historians, History, iv, 29. with characteristic zeal for the Mohawks, ascribe the removal of the Raritans to It is not the incursions of the former. " Southern possible to determine who the Indians" named in the text were, but it