To their services in that and in other engagements the testimony of Washington is added. 2

Literally did*they redeem the pledge

which they had given at Albany, the pledge of Ruth

Near forty of the Indians were killed

desperately wounded, among them Nimham, a chieftain who had been to

or

England, and his son (Simcoe's Journal}. Bolton states that eighteen bodies were recovered from the field and buried in one The loss of the British is said to pit. have been five ; but it was rare indeed

:

" Whither

that they made a correct return, and the

number may have been much greater. 3 " Head Quarters, Bergen Co.,

September 13, 1870. To the President of Congress : Sir :

This

excellency

mon

of

will

be presented to your Hendriks Solo

by Captain Stockbridge.

He

and

about

THE INDIJN TRIBES

thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge ; thy where thou people shall be my people, and thy God my God ;

diest will I

die,

and there

will I be buried."

The privations

which the patriots suffered, they shared without a murmur their devotion they never wearied.

;

in

When the tattered banners

of the struggle were folded away, they returned to their ancient seats, and at the

head waters of the Hudson again met the white

men, now their brothers by a holier covenant, as they had met them in 1609, the sole representatives of the Indian tribes of Hudson's river.