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

ment which they called Canowaroghere or Onawaraghharee, 7 and which was subsequently recognized as u the second Oneida castle." Several families of the

Long island clans, dispossessed

of their lands and surrounded by European settlers, were subse quently added to the colony, giving to it influence in point of

numbers.

Meanwhile the Esopus clans who had not followed the for tunes of their kindred, the Minsis, maintained their succession of

sachems and held annual conferences with the justices at Kings Thither came Ankerop, chief sachem, in 1722, and tc white man had offered violence to an Indian complained that a

ton. 9

of Aughquages and Mahicanders under

Thomas, an Aughquage

chief.

Ibid,

The Mahicans here spoken of were

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entirely distinct from those who settled at an early period among the Lenapes, or

who were subsequently located at