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.

perhaps explain the text.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

reported that they had sent twelve men to the Senecas, and should send more," and the Kicktawancs and other Westchester families stated that they had sent six of their number.

The Schattcook Indians were actively employed.

In addition

to their services as scouts, a large number of them joined in the

pursuit of the French after the destruction of Schenectady, and the ex also in the several expeditions against Canada.

When

under Winthrop returned,

Captain John Schuyler at Wood creek, with a embarked, voluntarily company Consist pedition

ing of

"

twenty-nine English soldiers, one hundred and twenty

Mohawk and Scahook Indians, 2 to go to Canada and fight the enemy." This force made the successful attack on the French beyond Lake Champlain, already .noticed, and returned to Al bany with nineteen prisoners and six scalps. The Wappingers, or " Indians of the Long Reach," as they were called, accepted the invitation to unite in the war, and with their head sachem and " all the males of the tribe able to bear arms," went to A portion of them, Albany, and from thence to the field. however, appear as the allies of the French, and as such to have destroyed Hatfield and Deerfield, under the lead of Ashpelon,