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

:

" The river Indians whose

families a$e

have had a meeting with the Mohawk Indians, and

agreed that they shall remove and live with the- Mohawks.

Two of those Indians are going down to fetch up their women, children,

etc.,

and I send an interpreter with them.

As

the

removal of these Indians and their incorporation with the Mo hawks is an affair that will be, I hope, of happy consequence towards the public tranquillity at this juncture, I must desire you

Near Walden, Orange county, in the New York.

ate of

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History of

New York,

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763,764.

Colonial History,

11,94/96, 100,113.

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

your power to the Indians who are going down, and take care that no just cause of dissatisfaction be will give all assistance in

When Johnson returned to his residence on given to them." the gth of July, he found, as the fruit of this order, one hundred