" To those gentlemen, members of the legislature, and others who have evinced their kindness to me, I cannot refrain from paying the unsolicited tribute of my Unable to return heart-felt thanks. is still

them any other compensation, I fervently pray that God will have them in his holy will guide them in safety keeping through the vicissitudes of this life, and mercies of ultimately, through the rich our blessed Redeemer, receive them into the glorious entertainment of his kingdom

above."

See

note

by

W. J.

Allinson,

New Jersey Historical Collections.

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

around their ancient seats for some years after the close of the revolution, but of them one after another

it

is

"

written, they In the language of Tamenund at

disappeared in the night." " The the death of Uncas pale faces are masters of the earth, :

and the time of the red men has not yet come again. has been too long.

happy and strong

;

My day In the morning I saw the sons of Unami and yet, before the night has come, have I

lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mabicans"

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX I.

i

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

HE personal history of the early Indian kings and chiefs who held dominion in the valley of the Hud

son, is involved in even greater obscurity than that

which attaches

to their contemporaries

in other

world.

Of MASSASOIT, MIANTONOMOH,

UNCAS, PHILIP, and other

New England chiefs, and of Powparts