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New York. Later, with the Oneida in 1833, they moved to Wis- 

 consin, where they now continue to exist as a band numbering about 

 200 souls. Considerable light may still be thrown on the southern 

 New England area by a detailed study of the composite exiled band, 

 and this is a particularly urgent need at present.' 



MOHEGAN POPULATION 



It may not be out of place to present here for the historian and 

 sociologist a series of estimates of the population of the Mohegan at 

 difl'erent periods, to show incidentally how a small native community 

 has withstood annihilation for almost two centuries, although sur- 

 rounded by an aggressive and growing European population.^ The 

 small tribe has shown a remarkable tenacity, despite progressive 

 dilution of blood, an illustration of the occasional persistency of 

 small racial bodies within larger ones. 



1704. "150 warriors" (e.stimated total 750 by De Forest, op. cit., p. 316). 

 1743. "100-120 men" (estimated 400-500 by De Forest, op. cit., p. 346). 

 1774. 206 New London and Montville, 61 Norwich, 21 Lebanon, 28 Colchester, 



30 Preston; total, 346. (De Forest, p. 474, cjuoting Mass. Hist. See. 



CoU., vol. X, p. 118.) 

 1782. 135 (History of Montville, Conn., Baker). 

 1786. The removal took place to the Oneida country, under Samson Occom, 



and the formation of the Brotherton band, which later removed to 



Wisconsin. 

 1797. "Supposed to be 400" (statement by Kendall, see 1807, below)- 

 1804. 84 (Mooney, in Handbook of Amer. Inds., Bull. 30, Bur. Amcr. Ethn., 



article Mohegan). 

 1807. 69 "on their lands" (E. A. Kendall, Travels through North America, etc., 



1807-8. N. Y. (1809), p. 301). 

 1822-1825. 300 (Mooney, op. cit., probably from census, Jedidiah Morse). 

 1832. 350 (ibid.). 



1848. 125 (De Forest, p. 488). 25-30 fuU bloods, about 60 on the reservation. 

 1860. 85 (60 on reservation, 25 residing elsewhere). This is an accurate census 



by commissioners appointed by the State. (Rep. of Committee on the 



Mohegan Lands, Hartford, 1861, p. 4.) 

 1902. "About 100" (Speck, ref. i, 1909, p. 185), including those scattered 



through eastern Connecticut. These were enumerated by name. 

 1910. 22 (U. S. Census 1910, Ind. Pop. in U. S., p. 116). Evidently lessened 



through the claim of some of the Indians who passed as whites. The 



enumerations for the eastern tribes are, however, generally worthless 



in this census. 

 1920. 122 (enumeration of the Mohegan Association); 31 at Mohegan; 73 in 



Norwich, New London, and neighboring Connecticut towns; 18 



scattered. 



' Since the above was written a collection of te.xts and linguistic material has been obtained from this 

 group by Dr. Truman Michelson for the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



! Hubbanl (Narrative of Ind. Wars in New Engl. (1S03) p. 52) remarked on the Mohegan being less 

 numerous but more warlike than the Narragansett. 



