allies,

Iroquois, quois,

280 ;

treaty of, with Iro

of the French, 69 ; gives medals to the Iroquois, 1 69 j appeals to James II, to main tain alliance with Iroquois, 169;

feat the operations

Corchaugs, location of, 74 Corlear's Hook, massacre of Indians

at,

106, 108 j aboriginal name of, 361

asks for Catholic priests, 169

INDEX.

Dress, of an Indian belle, 21 ; description of,

Evert Pels, a Dutch prisoner, escapes tor

Hudson's

Verazzano's

8 ;

de

ture by adoption,

Dwellings and mode of construction, 24 Du Bois, Mrs. Louis, captured by the sopus Indians, 1535 tradition con

Festivals, 27,

cerning, 153

Dutch, neutrality of, in Indian wars, 54 ; treaty of, with Mahicans, etc., 54; send embassadors to the Mohawks,

:

132; responsible for the Manhattan

of,

Orange, construction of, 99 5 Plain, battle of, 284 j Schuyler, siege of, 273 Franklin, Benjamin, commands expedi

Emerick, Col., account of battle of Cortland's Ridge, 286, 287 English capture Fort Amsterdam, 1585 treaty with the Iroquois, 55, 158; treaty with Mahicans, 158, 1605 laws regulating intercourse with the

tion to build Fort at Gnadenhiitten,

French, employ Catholic missionaries, 1 68 ; secure treaty of neutrality, with Duke of York, 169; make

Indians, 1625 treaty of Esopus, 163

Eskmoppas, sachem ofRockaways, 73 Esopus, derivation of term, 945 first settle ment at, 125; settlers at, abandon lands, 1 1 2, 123; first war at, 120; Stuyvesant solicited to protect, 125 }

prisoners of Iroquois chiefs by treach ery, 1715 at war with the Senecas,