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

Hudson.

Immigrants flocked

and

in,

in

ten years from the

time of settlement, it was thought a hundred warriors had collected around him. 2 To his village he gave the name of Pishgachtigok, which had already been applied to that of the fugitive Pennacooks on the Hudson, and which there as well as

on the Hudson, 3 was corrupted into Schaticook, by which it was

known to

the authorities of Connecticut,

who

subsequently

established there a reservation on, which the name of

was represented

for

five

What

Mauwehu

relation

this generations. organization sustained to the Mabicans does not appear, although

the authority of the latter was no doubt recognized, so far as With the authori recognition was customary under tribal laws.

of New York, Mauwehu had no direct connection. Almost simultaneously with the appearance of Mauwehu in

ties

the valley of the Housatonic, the axe of the pioneer was heard forests. In 1722, Joseph Parsons and others purchased from the Mabicans there a tract of land embracing