ployed as scouts or otherwise." a The Ottaiuas occupied the southwestern part of Canada at this time. They were almost constantly at war with the Five Nations, and also with the Mahicans.

Their relations with the Esopus Minsis were intimate and friendly, and many of them came thither to trade with the In 1691, a cornEnglish at Kingston. pany of them, while visiting the Esopus country, fell victims to the small-pox. Colonial History, m, 776, 778. In the

Land Papers, official record is made that Punganis, whose land was near Walden,

Orange county, pledged the same to Robert Sanders as security for the payment of 70, that he had then (1689) been absent with the Ottaivas for ten years, and that his brother " intending to go to the in

wars," wished Sanders to keep the land

" till his brother Papers, in, 22.

pays him for it."

Land

Colonial History, m, 808.

" Several Indians

living on both sides

came to His Excellency, some at Albany, and others at a town Hudson's

river

nigh the river called Kingstone ; he cornmanded them to demean themselves quietly towards the Christians their neighbors, invited such as were gone elsewhere to return with their families, and that if they wanted land it should be laid out for them in convenient places." Colonial History, m, 568. * a map

On

History plied

accompanying Freud's of Pennsylvania, Katsban is apvillage immediately north of

to a

Saugerties creek, and

Katskill to a village at the junction of the Kader's and the Katskill creek, west of the present These two villages village of Katskill.