Whether he was the

Wood

founder of the Pennsylvania organization or not does not appear ; but the organization itself maintained a separate and recognized existence in all the changes of the Lenapes and their confede In those changes Keeperdo shared rates. accepted, with his

" associates, the reproach of women," joined in the ceremonies of its removal, and, in 1771, was found in the Ohio country. 3

(April 23, 1737), where a number of Indians live,

Shawanos and Mahicanders." Moravian Church, i, 69.

In the Manuscripts of

Memorials Sir

William

Johnson, in the State Library (vol. ai, " Letter from p. 40), is a letter endorsed :

Ohio concerning land 1771."

rec'd it Oct. 1 6th,

This letter was from Mohekin

" I understand

Abraham, who writes the Mohikans at; Stockbridge are wanting :

known by many old people about " It Albany, and in conclusion says may

well

Colonial History, v, 798, 799.

" We reached Skehandowa

:

be reported that I am dead, as it is forty years since I left that country." Signed,

" Mohekin Abraham, The tract was covered Philip Skene,

or Keeperdo." by a patent to

and embraced what was

known as Skenesborough, now Whitehall, in the present county of Washington . Skene located thirty families on it in 1761,

The Mahicans

at

Stockbridge claimed

the ownership, but it does not appear that

The letter

to sell a certain tract of land lying above

the tract was ever paid for.

Albany, from the mouth of Wood creek upwards." This sale he requested to have stopped as he was the owner, that he was