Mississagies, accepted as the seventh na tion of the Iroquois confederacy, 199;

alliance of, with Iroquois broken, 200 Mitchill, Dr. theory of, 16 Mohawks, a tribe of the Five Nations,

36} territory of, 96; villages and castles of, 97 j totems of, 49 ; mode of declaring war, 31 j conversion of, by Jesuits, 56; obtain fire-arms, 66, 100 j at war with the Hurons, 53 ; first treaty with the Dutch, 545 wars with the Mahicans, 57, 61 j drive the Soquatucks from their land,

59 j weakened by the Mahicans, 60 ; the gov. of Canada, for pro

Kent, Connecticut, 195 Mayane, a Wappinger chief, 82, 113 Medicines, 27

solicit

Mechkentowoons, a Mahican chieftaincy, 71, 85, 96 Megriesken, sachem of Wappingers, 84 Merncks, location of the, 73

nawaga, 61 ; defeated by the Ma hicans at Kinaquariones, 61 ; obtain assistance from the Oneidas, Cayugas,

Mespath, village of, destroyed by Dutch,

and Senecas, 61 ; send embassadors to

Metzewakes, sachem of Kikhawongs, 79 Miantonomo, sachem of Narragansetts,

bassadors to, 132; promise not to aid

Miami Rapids, council of tribes at, 291 Mingoes, origin of, 257 Minichque, a Mahican sachem, mortally injured by negroes, 185; biographi cal notice of, 319 Minnisinks, a chieftaincy of Minsis, lo cation and villages of, 965 one of, charged with murder at Esopus, 127; take part in war of 1689,

178 j visited by Arent Schuyler, l8ij invite Shawanoes to settle

among, 181 5 Minsis defrauded of killed, at, at, 217; settlers 222 j devastations in war of 1756, stationed Count Pulaski at, 238 ;