was witnessed by " Jeremias Van Rensleiar,

Philip Pieterson

Schuyler, Robert Nedham, S. Salisbury and Edw. Sackville," " and by the following " Esopus young men Pepankhais, Robin :

Cinnaman "a Pekoct sachem," Ermawamen, and Rywackurs.

One of the chieftaincies was apparently without a sachem the number was completed in 1670, when, on the nth of ;

full

April,

" a new made sachem of the Esopus

Indians,

named

Calcop," appeared before the justices of Ulster and confirmed the agreement.

The Mimis proper maintained hostilities until 1675, when they " the full play of the yielded to what Dr Golden denominates warlike genius" of their enemies, but more properly, as already intimated, to the fearful disadvantages under which they were placed by the refusal of the English to supply them with fire arms and powder, in accordance with the treaty with the Senecas

and Mohawks, and were made tributary to the Senecas. In the east the contest still raged. Peace was made in 1675, but it

Oghgotacton ; his lands were near the present village of Walden.

See appendix.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

was one of accommodation on the part of the Abenaquis and their

many of whom sympathized with King Philip and eagerly Nor were they disheartened when, on the I2th

allies,

shared his fate.

of August, 1676, that great leader gave up his life.

In that re

markable struggle for the restoration of the Indians to independ ence, one of the branches of the formidable alliance, the Pennacooks, was crushed and its fugitives, bleeding and torn, sought