SOQUANS and MINICHQUE appear as representatives of the Mahicdns on the Hudson in 1700. The first was a speaker of more than ordinary merit, as his public addresses attest. " of his people, and MINICHQUE is called the u great sachem great he certainly was in forgiving, upon his death-bed, his mur and praying that they might be spared the punishment There is a due for the offense which they had committed. moral grandeur in this, the crowning act of his life, which appeals

derers,

to every reasonable mind.

It is

to be regretted that so little is

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known of his history. There is no doubt he was one of the leaders of the Mahicans at the time the Mohawks appealed to the governor of Canada, to protect them against his nation, 1 and that he subsequently

became firmly attached to the English

He was an intemperate man, but in this was no

government.

exception to his race ; he

was beloved by

his people for his

greatness as a savage ; his dying wish associates with his memory one of the " attributes of the gods." The " oldest man " among the Mahicans^ when the

New

England

missionaries

first

visited

them, was Captain JOHN

He was one of the signers to the deed to Parsons

KONAPOT.

and his associates in 1724, and subsequently became an influen tial

member of the

says of him

" :

mission church at Stockbridge. Hopkins KONAPOT, the principal man among the Muhhekanok of Massachusetts, was strictly temperate, very just and upright in his dealings, a man of prudence and industry, and " inclined to embrace the Christian religion j and Sergeant adds " He is an excellent the true spirit of has and believe do man, :