Assimi lating with the

They

French in

come located, drew

to

subsequently.

"

Ordered, that a message be sent to Minnisinks to order them to send up their young men to Albany to join with the Five Nations against the French." Council Minutes, May 6, 1688. "This includes only those residing in The fol the then county of Albany. lowing return made to Gov. Fletcher in 1698, gives the strength and losses of the several tribes

:

Strength, In 1689. In 1698.

Mohawks, Oneidas,

Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, River Indians,

Total, 4 "

1 80 IJOO

politics.

secretly, and after they

had be

them considerable numbers of Schatl-

Paxinos has been classed as a Shawanoe chief, but such was not the case at this time, whatever he may have been

a

they soon did so in

faith,

went off in small bodies,

Loss.

tion."

dians."

" Four hundred of our Colonial

History,

best In

of the State

" In the time of

of New York, m, 836. the last war the clandestine trade to Mon treal began to be carried on by Indians from Albany to Montreal. This gave rise to the Konuaga or Praying Indians, who are en tirely made up of deserters from the Mo

hawks and river Indians, and were either enticed by the French Priests or by our mer chants in order to carry goods from Albany to Montreal, or run away from some mis These Indians now chief done here. consist of about eighty fighting men and live about four leagues above Montreal.