their grandchildren on the of the Six Nations, warriors Mississippi,

who, in small number, had participated in the contest, returned which had been set apart for them by the of New York, which in part they still occupy. 3 legislature From their ancient dominions the Mahicans at Westenhuck removed, in 1785, on the invitation of the Qneidas, to a tract six miles square in the present towns of Augusta, Oneida county, and Stockbridge, Madison county. Here they resided until

to the reservations

1821, when, with other Indians of New York, they purchased of the Menomlnees and Wmnebagoes, a tract of land on the

Wisconsin and Fox rivers in Wisconsin, and took up their resi dence there. 4

Stone's Life of Brant y n,

The loss inflicted upon the Americans

382, etc.

during this war is officially stated at over

two thousand men.

Census of

New York, 1855, appendix.

Only a comparatively small portion of the original reservations

now remain in their

possession.

Stockbridge, Past and Present.

OF HUDSON'S RIPER. And there were other settlements.

A band of Montauks of

Long Island, Mohegans of Connecticut, and Pequots and Narragansetts of Massachusetts, under the leadership of Samson Occum, a Mohegan missionary, took up their residence in the Oneida country in 1788, and were confirmed on a reservation two miles in length by three in breadth, in the present town of Marshall, Oneida county, where, having no language in com the English, and received the name of

mon, they adopted Brothertons.

They

removed