was removed to the banks of the Tawalsontha creek, now called the Norman's kill, from whence it was soon after removed further north and located in the vicinity of what is now South Broadway, Albany, and called Fort Orange, by which name, and that of Beaverwyck, the small settlement which gathered around it, it was known until 1664. it

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THE INDIAN TRIBES

it was deemed prudent to erect a fort on what was then known as Prince's island, and to garrison it with six

offended, and

teen men for the defense of the river below." 1

Contemporaneous circumstances contributed to keep alive One Jacob Eelkins, 2 who had been in superintend ence of the trade at Fort Nassau, in the summer of 1622 this feeling.

ascended the Connecticut to

traffic,

and while there treacher

ously imprisoned the chief of the Sequins on board his yacht, and would not release him until a ransom of one hundred and

The offense was more so than by the To appease them, Eelkins was discharged, and Mai?icons. in further overture to them, Krieckbeck, the Dutch apparently commander at Fort Orange, in 1626, joined them, with six men, on a hostile expedition against the Mohawks.* Other causes of grievance were not wanting. The sale of fire-arms to the Mahlcans and Mohawks at Fort Orange and forty fathoms of

wampum had been exacted.

resented by

the tribes, and by none

all

the refusal to sell to the chieftaincies in the vicinity of Fort