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

not an improbable supposition that they were Shawanoes. is

O.P HUDSON'S

RWER.

events of 1643-44, but subsequently appear only as mediators in the person of their sachem Oritany, who enjoyed to a rare old age the confidence of his people and of the surrounding He is spoken chieftaincies, as well as that of the Europeans.

of in

1687, as very aged, and as delegating his authority in a The lands of the chieftaincy embraced

measure to Perro. Jersey City,

Hoboken, a

part of Staten

island,

Wehawken,

Newark, Passaic, etc.

The Aquackanonks.

Their sachem, in 1676, was CapTheir territory, or at least a portion of it, was called Haquequenunck or Acquackanonk, and included the 4th.

tahem or Captamin.

of the present city of Paterson. 3 They are also described as occupying a considerable portion of the centre of New Jersey.

site

The relations existing between this 5th. The Tappans. chieftaincy and the Hackinsacks were very intimate, so much so as to lead some to suppose that they were a part of Oritany's sachemdom.