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part of his followers, gallantly fighting in this obstinate and bloody encounter 

 (Burk, 1804-16, vol. 2, pp. 104-107). 



Bui'k's account seems to have constituted the primary source for 

 most later authors writing on this battle, although a few also have 

 employed Gatford or have cited Hening's printing of the Virginia 

 Assembly documents. Lindestrom's account of a battle between 

 the English of Virginia and the Black Minqua, as well as the material 

 from the Maryland Archives and part of Lederer's statements, has 

 generally been ignored. 



9. RICHAHECRIAN-ERIE CONNECTION 



The identity of the Richahecrian with the Erie is based, in part, 

 upon De Lamberville's comment that "six hundred men, women, and 

 children of the nation of the chats" once lived "near Virginia," and, 

 in part, upon some degree of similarity in the names. The latter 

 evidence is not completely convincing, but it is stUl suggestive. 



Richahe crian English (Va. Assembly, 1656) 



Arrigahaga Swedish (Printz, 1653) 



Eriga English (Evans, 1755) 



Erieh ronon Huron (Thwaites, ed., 1896-1901, 



vol. 18, p. 235) 



Erieeh ronon Iroquois (ibid., vol. 21, p. 191) 



Erieh ronnon Iroquois (ibid., vol. 41, p. 81) 



Rigue ronnon Iroquois (ibid., vol. 47, p. 59; vol. 50, 



p. 117) 

 Rhiie rrhonon Huron (ibid., vol. 8, p. 115) 



10. RICHAHECRIAN-RICKOHOCKAN CONNECTION 



In his report on his second expedition of 1670, Lederer stated, in 

 connection with a visit at "Akenatzy": 



... I have heard several Indians testifie, that the Nation of the Rickohockans, 

 who dwell not far to the Westward of the Apalataean Mountains, are seated upon 

 a Land, as they term it, of great Waves; by which I suppose they mean the 

 sea-shore. 



The next day after my arrival at Akenatzy, a Rickohockan Ambassadour, 

 attended by five Indians, whose faces were coloured with Auripigmentum ["gold 

 paint"] (in which Mineral these parts do much abound) was received, and that 

 night invited to a Ball of their fashion; but in the height of their mirth and dancing, 

 by a smoke contrived for that purpose, the Room was suddenly darkned, and for 

 what cause I know not, the Rickohockan and his Retinue barbarously murthered. 

 [Lederer, 1958, p. 26.] 



Lederer also shows the "Rickohokans" on his map of 1672 as being 

 west of the present-day site of Roanoke, Va., and apparently west 

 of the Great Valley of Virginia on the New River. This location 

 is also due west of the principal Virginia settlements of 1656 and only 

 a short distance, therefore, from what was then taken as the borders 



