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

of Keeperdo is important as defining more clearly the extent of the Mahican country,

OF HUDSON'S RIPER. As this band retreated towards

^

the west, another appeared

from the east in the territory of the Mabicans.

Gideon x Mau

wehu, a Pequot chief, originally of some prominence in that unfortunate nation, and whose natural abilities were of no ordinary stamp, with a few of his followers found a home in the present town of Dover, on Ten Mile river, in the county of Dutchess. Here he had lived but a short time, when, on

one of his hunting excursions, he came to the summit of a Look in the present county of Kent, Connecticut. he the Housatonic saw eminence down from this ing winding

mountain

through a narrow but fertile valley, shut in by wooded hills.Delighted with the scene, he returned to his wigwam, packed

up

his

to

this

property, and journeyed with his family and followers new found land of quiet and plenty. From here he

issued invitations to his old friends and to the Mabicans of the