south of the Raritan, and of hunting in all unenclosed lands, was never relin quished, but on the contrary was expressly reserved in our last treaty, held at Crosswicks, in 1758.
"
Having
myself
been
one
of the
the sale, I believe in 1801, I know that these rights were not sold or parted with.
parties
to
" We now offer to sell these
privileges
New Jersey. They were once of great value to us, and we appre hend that neither time nor distance, nor the non-use of our rights, has at all to the state of
affected them, but that the courts here would consider our claims valid were we
exercise them ourselves, or delegate them to others. It is not, however, our to
THE INDIAN TRIBES
On a small reservation on Long island the Montauks have still
a
blood.
representation,
though with scarce a member of pure
On the third of March, 1702, they made an agreement
with the English in which the rights of each were definitely fixed, and resided in peace with their neighbors until after the
when
they made claim to lands which they had The first to welcome but without success. previously ceded, Hudson's wandering bark, they are now the last representatives revolution,
of the tribes which once held dominion on Sewanhackie.
Domestic clans or families of Minsls and Mahlcans lingered
We
wish thus to excite litigation. con sider the state legislature the proper pur chaser,
and
prolongation'of the existence of a wasted, Upon this parting occasion, I feel it to be an incumbent