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

to all

Governor Winthrop,

my

letters

arrived

them

in

1669: "If

in

your

hands

of one tenor, viz: the earnest desire of the Maquas to conclude firm peace with the MohiNew Tork Assize Record. cands." Colonial History, iv, 744, 902, etc. In an address to the Massachusetts commisyou will find

all

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

But English possession brought with it additional changes in the connection of the Indians with provincial authorities. To the boundary lines of territorial governments, which haa already

passed through and subdivided the Mahicans and the Lfnapes, court districts and county lines were added. Indians of the

same tribal families, who had hitherto been held responsible to and had

their treaty relations

with different governments and

provinces, while consolidated in some respects, were further separated by special assignment to the charge of different court

Thus the Wappingers and those residing south of the

districts.

island, had their treaty intercourse with the and authorities at New York ; those north of the governor high