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

found invariably in a sitting posture, surrounded by tomahawks, arrow-heads, In one grave was found a sheet iron etc. tobacco box containing a hankerchief covered with devices, employed doubtless to preserve the record of its owner's services. Not far from the grounds is the Willehoosa, a cavern in the rocks on the side of the Shawangunk mountain. It contains three apartments, each about the Indian imsize of an ordinary room. plements of various kinds have been found there.

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

claimed title to the lands north of the Mohawk river. principal villages or castles, in 1677, were

Their

on the north side of

the Mohawk, in the present counties of Montgomery and Herkimer, and were

:

I.

Cahaniaga, or Gandaougue, by the Dutch

called Kaghnewage, and more modernly known as Caghnawaga ; 2. Gandagaro, or Kanagaro 3. Canajorha, or Canajoharie, and 4. Tionondogue or Tionnontoguen. The first contained ;

twenty-four houses ; the second, sixteen ; the third, sixteen, and the fourth thirty. 1 Tionondogue was the capital of the tribe. destroyed by the French in 1667, and rebuilt about one mile further west. It was again destroyed by the French in It was