clans of Minsis and Mahicans, who remained in the

Hudson, were not neglected.

valley of the

To the former, proclamation was

made in December, 1755, through the justices of Ulster, " back inviting them to remove from the settlements, where be taken for enemies and to the " towns

they might

destroyed,"

where they would be protected and assisted." Accepting these but the promised pro assurances, many of them came forward tection and assistance was not, in all cases, extended. At Wile;

mantown, in Ulster county, at the house of Charles Stevenson, where a number of them assembled, they were attacked, on the second of March, by a party of armed men, headed by Samuel Slaughter, and a man and his squaw killed. Moving from thence to a wigwam about a mile and a half distant, three In dians, two squaws and misguided zeal.

two children fell victims to Slaughter's

Those who reached Kingston, while spared

hostile attack, were

suffered to remain dependent upon such was usually extended to their race. Under the cir cumstances in which they were placed, they readily accepted the offer which was made to them to remove to the Mohawk To that end Mohawk chiefs were sent to them, with country.

charity as

an interpreter, and provision made for their transportation. On the 22d of May they appeared before Johnson, were ad dressed and assigned to lands in the Schoharie county. 3

Many of the Mahicans of the upper Hudson and Wapplngers On the 28th of of Dutchess followed in the same direction. May, Johnson writes at Fishkill, it is