They were at treaty conference for the last time in Colonial History, vn, 259. Colonial History, v, 675.

1755.

They were

subsequently

called

the

Onoghquageys, Oghquagas, Aughquages, Ochquaquas, Onenhoghkwages, Auquaguas, OnehohIndex Colonial History ; Pro quages, etc. ceedings of the Provincial

Convention of

New York, n, 340, 419, 423, etc.

Dr. O'Callaghan says they were chiefly

Mohawks (note, Colonial History, v, 675), but a different conclusion is clearly dedufrom the conference minutes of Feb. 1756, in which the name "Augh

cible 2,

quages, as distinguishing the original or ganization, is immediately followed by that of Tuscaroras in brackets. Colonial

in the Mississagies as the Seventh Nation j

History, vn, 51.

and what is now spoken by one mouth, are the joint and sincere thoughts of

were Mohawks residing among them.

It is quite probable there

Colonial History, vn, 278.

"A party

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

from Maryland, a portion of the Cbugnuts* a Susquehanna family, and several clans of the Minsis or Esopus Indians river 3 They were living upon the east branch of the Delaware not without favorable record in the wars of 1745 and I755, 4 roonas,

;

but derive their historic interest mainly from the distinguished services of their chief, Thomas King, 5 and from the fact that

through them the history of the Esopus clans is linked with the war of the Revolution. 6 At a later period, and apparently about 1746, the Oneidas sent off a colony from their principal castle, to a point about twelve miles from Oneida lake, where they established a settle