The proceedings to which he was a

party for the recovery of the lands of his people, would occupy a volume. The facts stated in the case, as reported the

by

lords of trade, on the hearing of NIMHAM, who visited

England, for that purpose, are " that the tract of land, the property and possession whereof is claimed by these Indians, and their title disputed, is situated between Hudson's river and the line which

New York from that of Connecticut, from east to west about twenty miles, and

divides the province of

extending in length

in breadth from north to south about sixteen miles, and con

taining about two hundred and four thousand and eight hundred acres of land ; that they continued in the uninterrupted posses

sion of these lands, and in the actual

improvement and settle ment of the same, by themselves and their tenants, until the commencement of the late war (1755), when the head sachem, accompanied by

all

the males of that tribe able to bear arms,

went into your majesty's service under Sir William Johnson, and the residue removed to Stockbridge, for their greater con venience and accommodation that whilst the said sachem and his people were righting under your majesty's banner; all this tract of land was taken up by persons claiming under a grant ;

thereof made by the governor of New York .to one Adolph Phillipse in 1697, and afterwards purchased by him of the ancestors of the said Indians, which purchase they allege, was not a purchase of the whole tract comprehended in the grant