It was known as the " lower Mohawk and the castle," occupied of the present village of Fonda, Montgomery county. Gandagaro passed out of existence with the second French in

long site

In 1690, a vasion, or at least is lost to the records after 1693. new castle was erected at the mouth of Schoharie creek and

Tiononderoge, after the name of the ancient capital of the tribe, but was more generally known as " the castle of

called

It was situated on the site of what was

the praying Maquas."

known

Fort Hunter. Its occupants were subsequently called the Schoharie Indians. It was among them that several families of

as

Esopus Indians were

settlers in

After the

1756.

revolution the Mohawks had neither castles nor villages in their

ancient territory. 2d.

town,

The

Qneldfls,

etc.

" the old Oneida

The

Colonial History, in, 250 ; Brodhead's

New York, 11, 129.

Oneidas

had,

in

1677,

one

castle," as it was called, containing one

Pierron, the Jesuit missionary, it is said, visited every week

seven Mohawk villages, but they are not located,

Colonial History, vi, 850.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

hundred houses the Onondagas, a palisaded town of one hun dred and forty houses, and a village of twenty-four houses ; x the ;

Cayugas three towns, and the Senecas four. The capital of the confederacy was the village of Onondaga,

on the lake of that name, the principal settlement of the OnonBishop Cammerhof, who visited it in 1751, says, Onondaga, the chief town of the six nations, situated in a very pleasant and fruitful country, and consisting of five small towns and villages, through which the river Zinochsaa dagas.