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

187.

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

who were subsequently located at

those

Otsiningo.

Ibid., 104.

Colonial History, vi, 983. Supposed to be a remnant of the Powhattan con

federacy,

who were removed under the

treaty with Virginia in

1722, and called by Gallatin Sachdagughroonas. The date of their settlement at the north corre sponds with that of the treaty with Vir ginia.

Gallatin, 58, 59.

Their village was on the south bank of the Susquehanna, opposite Bingham-

"

The Delaware Indians, who live on the east branch of the Delaware river, near the head of it, have given us the strongest assurances that they will live and 50.

die with us."

Colonial History, vu,

" I assure

your excellency I never saw

better inclined to assist us than

Colonial History, vi, 361. they are." 5 This chief was actively employed as the principal deputy of the Five Nations in the treaties with the Lenapes and ShaHe died at Charleston, South wanoes.

Carolina, after attending the congress of Indian nations atScioto, in 1771. John