4 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 8o 



Mahican, Wappinger, Munsee and Montauk tribes and their asso- 

 ciates of the Hudson River and Long Island, was broken in the wars 

 with the Dutch in 1640 and 1664, by local epidemics, and by the utter 

 demoralization which came upon them with the completion of the con- 

 quest. On Long Island in 1658 an epidemic visitation destroyed one- 

 half of the Montauk and a proportion of the smaller tribes. The 

 Delaware (Lenape) bands of New Jersey had become almost ex- 

 tinct from the use of spirituous liquors and general dissipation before 

 1720, while the main body of the tribe has steadily decreased from 

 wars, removals, and the same dissipation, until less than one-fourth 

 remain. 



New England 1600 1907 



Abnaki tribes (including Passamaquoddy) 3,000 1,400 



Pennacook 2,000 Extir ct 



Massachuset 3,000 Extinct 



Nipmuc, independent 500 Extinct 



Pocomtuc, etc. (central Mass.) 1,200 Extinct 



Wampanoag, etc 2,400 Extinct 



Nauset 1,200 50 (?) mixt 



Nantucket i.Soo Extinct 



Marthas Vineyard 1,500 50 (?) mixt 



Narraganset, etc., and E. Niantic 4,000 30 (?) mixt 



Pequot 2,200 25 mixt 



Mohegan 600 75 (?) mixt 



Niantic, Western 250 Extinct 



Podunk (E. Windsor, E. Hartford) 300 Extinct 



Quinnipiac (New Haven) 250 Extinct 



Paugusset and Wepawaug (Milford, Bridgeport) 400 Extinct 



Tunxis (Farniington) 400 Extinct 



Wcngunk (Wethersfield, Middletown) 400 Extinct 



New York 



Iroquois confederacy (excluding Tuscarora) 5>500 17.630 



Mahican (?) 3.000 760 



Wappinger tribes (excluding Conn.) (?) 3,000 Extinct 



Montauk, Canarsee, etc., of Long Island 6,000 30 ( ?) 



New Jersey and Pennsylvania 



Delaware and Munsee (?) 8,000 1,850 



Conestoga (?) 5.000 Extinct 



55,600 21,900 



SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES 



In this section we include most of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, 

 West Virginia and the Carolinas, with the exception of the Cherokee 



