in the field, their diplomacy

triumphant in council, their manhood wrung from the unwilling hands of civilized and uncivilized foes, they gave to the conflicts of the west an impetus which made their name national, and upon the politics and history of their native

grafted it forever land.

Not lost to the records of this eventful period were the Mabicansand Wappingers of the Hudson.

from

their ranks

found

While floating fragments

new homes among the Mohawks and

swelled the victorious clans of their brethren in the

Senecas,

west, suffered persecution for righteousness' sake at Gnadenhiicten, or 'chanted with Montcalm the war songs of the French, valley of the Housatonic, their ancient

Westenhuck, in the

at

council fire was kept brightly burning and their braves aided to The give to the English the supremacy of the continent.

among them of unselfish and devoted ministers of

introduction

gospel had restored to them, in a great measure, their ancient character, and made their influence felt in the camp and

the

in the field, so much so, indeed, that the

schools

their

children

for

Mohawks sent to their

instruction, and the Onetdas were

hail them as brothers. When the war came on, their ranks a company to an effort to from made raise Johnson

proud to

aid in the expedition against Crown point,

failing only to

Governor Shirley to draw ofF with his expedition fighting

man among them." 3

After the

"

permit

nearly every

war they demanded

restitution from the Abenaquis for the loss of one of their number, and delayed the consummation of peace with them until