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

744.

described by De Forest (History Indians of Connecticut, 407), as having been com menced by one Gideon Manwehu, a Pequot, sometime about 1735, and who succeeded in calling about him a hun-

New

dred warriors.

England Indians by which an exodus of this kind would be made necessary prior to the downfall of Philip in 1676, and as

Colonial History, iv, 380,

902.

715, 744

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Lawrence than he was found declaring, that while the aggrand izement of France was earnestly to be desired, yet " the salvation of a soul was worth more than the conquest of an empire." At his instance, La Carnon, an ambitious Franciscan priest, entered the