were included in the treaty under the terms, " the Indians of Wamping and Espachomy, precisely as were those of Long " as island, who had recognized treaties, and who were specified below the Manhattans ;" but the Massachusetts Mabicans required no such recognition, the change in the government not having affected the treaty which existed between them and the English.

The fact that the treaty was made with representa

tives of the Five Nations has no significance other than that with

them the English had no previous

treaty.

Whatever

special

terms there were in its provisions with them were included in the supplemental articles, and these related only to the ques war and peace pending with tribes with whom the

tions of

English were under treaty, and in reference to which negotia tions were at once opened. 2 The new treaty made no other change in relation to the position of the representative tribes

than was necessarily involved in the change of government. This clearly appears from the subsequent records of the com missioners of Indian affairs, in which the Mabicans uniformly appear as having not only formed a treaty with the Dutch in

1609, and to have renewed that treaty with the English, but as " linked being together in interest with the Five Nations," and consulted with and treated as allies of the government in the capacity of an independent nation.

Colonial History, m, 67. The war which was pending at the

time this treaty was made was instigated by the English. 0'Ca//agAan,u, 519. The governor of New York and the governor of Massachusetts were the parties to the treaty between the Mohawks and the Mahicans. Governor Lovelace writes