i,

435.

locates here

some

families

of Nanticokes, and it is possible that when that nation " disappeared without glory," some of its members were induced thither either as recruits of the Minsis or the Mohaiuks, but their more considerable emigration was to Pennsylvania.

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THE INDUN'TRIBES

pie, as may be inferred from Kregier's account of them.

1663, was known as Long Jacob.

chief, in

sachem in i682. 2

Above the

Katskills

Their

Mahak Niminaw

came the Mechkentowoons of the Mahicans, but with boundary undefined.

The Minnisinks.

West of the Esopus country, and in the Delaware and its tributaries were the Minsis proper habiting 6th.

of whom a clan more generally known as the Minnisinks held the south-western parts of the present counties of Orange and

New

Van der Donck de Ulster, and north-western Jersey. scribes their district as " Minnessinck of 'tLandt van Bacham," and gives them three villages

:

Schepinaikonck, Meochkonck, and

Macharienkonck, the latter in the bend of the Delaware oppo site Port Jervis, and preserved perhaps in the name Mahackemeck. 3

On Sauthier's map, Minnisink, the capital of the clan, New Jer

located some ten miles south of Mahackemeck, in

is

sey.

Very little

is

known of the history of the clan as distin

guished from the tribe of which they were part, although the au thorities of New York had communication with them, and the Tradition gives to them missionary, Brainerd, visited them. the honor of holding the capital of the tribe in years anterior to