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

subsequently

the west

to

and

settled in Wisconsin.

Similar

was the course of the domestic clans of Raritans.

From an early period a remnant of the reservation in the county of Burlington,

tribe

had occupied a

New Jersey, where they

were known as Brothertons.

In 1802, they accepted an invita from the Mabicans to unite with them, and, obtaining consent from the legislature, sold their lands and removed to tion

the reservation of the authorities of

latter.

They were officially met by the

New Jersey for the last, time in 1832, when,

reduced to about forty souls, they applied to the legislature for remuneration on account of their rights of hunting and fishing

on unenclosed

lands, which they had reserved in their various agreements with the whites, and the legislature promptly directed

the payment to them of two thousand dollars in full relinquishment of their claims. 1

The application was made by Sha<wuskukhkung or Wilted Grass, a chief of the Delawares, who had been educated at Princeton at the expense of the Scotch At the time of Missionary Society. making the application he was seventysix years of age. His address to the legislature, on the occasion, was as fol lows