He was a man of remarkable powers of mind, and in whose mien "was the majesty of a Luther." He died of small pox at Bethlehem, Aug. 2,7, 1746.

and

Pisgachtigok,

Loskiel, n, 93, 94.

mission

Schabash received in

He was baptism the name of Abraham. subsequently elected chief or king of the Mahicans on the Delaware, and died at Wyoming in December, 1762. Memorials Moravian Church^ i, 147. Now North-east Centre, Connecticut, The name is preserved in Wachquadnach lake or Indian pond, On the east side of the Housatonic opposite the mouth of Poughtatuck creek, Or Wyatiack, near Salisbury, Litchfield

Co., Conn.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

houses were established, the success at the latter being greater

than that at Shekomeko.

In this field Rauch, Gotleib, Buttner and Samuel Mack labored for twenty years, and until driven out by persecutions which their success provoked. In the war of 1755, they were accused of being emissaries of the French j

subsequently they were "arrested under the law of 1700, forbid ding the presence of priests in the province without a license from the government ; the traders, whose traffic in

rum was mate

rially abridged by their teachings, lost no opportunity to misre

present them and accuse them falsely ; finally, they were ejected from the lands at Shekomeko under a claim that they belonged to the white people and not to the Indians. rest at

After a temporary

Wechquadnach and Pisgachtigok, they removed, with

many of their followers, to Pennsylvania, where they formed a colony to which they gave the name of Freidenshutten, (tents of peace).