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

Defrauded and maltreated, they subsequently exacted a terrible compensation for their wrongs. VI. The IROQUOIS. The territory occupied by the Mohawks ist. The Mohawks. the advent of the Europeans.

has already been sufficiently described, as well as that of their The Mohawks associate tribes of the Iroquois confederacy.

had no villages immediately upon the Hudson, although they

" Examined the

Squaw prisoner and

inquired if she were not acquainted with some Esopus Indians who abode about

She answered that some Katskill Indians lay on the other side near the Sager's kill, but they would not fight Documentary Hisagainst the Dutch." here ?

/cry, jv,

48.

" Mahak

Niminaw

shall

have,

as

being sachem of Katskill, two fathoms of duffels and an anker of rum when he Deed to Wm. Loveridge. comes home." On the cast bank of the Neversink river, three miles above Point Jervis, on the farm now or late of Mr. Levi Van Etten, exists an Indian burial ground, the

graves covering Skeletons have

an area of six acres, been unearthed, and