encouraged by the French to invite their brethren of New York, The as well as their old Mahican allies, to unite with them. result of these efforts was the organization of

what was known

as the St. Francis Indians.

Meanwhile an element other than introduced to divide the Indian tribes.

that of war

had been

With the French, reli

gious zeal and commercial ambition walked hand in hand, and the banner of the cross became the pioneer of that of France.

No sooner had Champlain discovered the territory of the St.

The

'

this

the fugitives from that conflict are deorganization, as well as the original classcribed by Hubbard as having fled towards

Ante,

p,

62.

date

of

of the elements of which the were composed, is distinctly stated by Earl Bellomont, the governor, " Our Skackoor or river Indians in 1 698 and which river Indians having been formerly driven out of those eastern parts by the people of New England." ColColonial History, iv, 380, 715. den fixes the date of their settlement as 1672, while one of their chiefs, speaking in 1700, states the occurrence as happening "six and twenty years ago," sification

Albany, the conclusion is that the Schati-

Schaticooks

cooks were no other than the

:

or in 1674. Colonial History, iv, As there was no war against the

Indians deThere was another by him. organization of Schaticooks, composed of New England and Hudson river Indians, They were located on Ten Mile river, so called, in the present county of Dutchess. This organization is particularly scribed