He was parto a high degree, and

ticularly designated,

by Mr. Miller,

as

a

proper person to furnish the government information in regard to the condition of He rendered himself so obnoxCanada. ious to the French governor there, in consequence of his opposition to the Jesuit missionaries among the Five Nations, that he was the subject of special cornto Governor Dongan in 1687. MunselTs Annals of Albany. Less then seventy dollars of United

plaint

States currency.

.

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

i

On the 30th of June, 1712, a patent was issued to Henry Wileman covering the same tract but extending its boundaries west to the falls in the Walkill at

being that the word thereto.

Walden, the inference doubtless " fall " in Sanders' had reference boundary

The Tinbrook enters the Walkill on the east about

half a mile from the'Yalls at Walden.

Much has been written in explanation of the word Shawangunk^ and yet the solution of the term is far from satisfactory. The Rev. CHARLES SCOTT, in a paper read before the Ulster Histo

Society, remarks very properly that the interpretation by Schoolcraft, so extensively copied, that the word means white

rical

rocks, from skawan, white, and gunk, rock alluding to the white cliffs which face the mountains west of Tuthiltown, is not sustained by any known vocabulary of Indian dialects. The

word comes down to us in, two and Cbawangong, the

first in

the

principal forms, Sbawangunk Dutch records of the Esopus

In wars, and the second in some of the early English patents. the deed to Governor Dongan, in 1684, it is specified as a certain tract