converts in Pennsylvania, but to them as an organization no The people - of Kingston missionary work was undertaken. cared little for their own improvement, much less for that of the Indians, and preferred rather to earn for themselves the

sobri

" the Sodom of New York," than to perform those quet of acts of charity and mercy which spring from a proper apprecia

tion of the Christian character.

Had

they followed the exter

minating policy of the Puritans it would have been more to their credit.

The

Wappingers, too, maintained an organization on the the changes which surrounded and attended

Hudson amid all them.

Many of them had been drawn off to new homes

;

a

few appeared among the Moravians and at Stockbridge, but the seat of the tribe

remained

in the highlands. 2

Nimham, who

was made chief sachem in 1740, gave them prominence by ser vice in the field and by his persistent efforts to recover lands of which they had been defrauded. The result of these and other changes was, that at the close of the half century the Lenapes had an active, vigorous organ ization of five tribes j the Iroquois^ one of seven tribes, and the

i,

Memorials of the Moravian Church,

sions with the addition of the Shawanoes

58. Colonial History, vn, 869.

and Mafricans. There were also several detached clans of minor importance assoelated with them.

Including the- original Lenape divi-

O.F HUDSON'S

RIPER.

Mohicans, although divided by provincial lines, one that could followers from Quebec to Manhattan. Although