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agreement. Aside from conquest there can be no doubt of this. 
In 1654 and later, the foot of Oneida lake was certainly in the 
territory of the Onondagas, their village there being well known 
for 50 years. Yet at a later day the Oneidas not only held the 
lake, but reserved a fishing place on its outlet, three miles below. 
Deep Spring was certainly on the line between the Oneidas and 
Onondagas after the revolution, but it is almost as evident that 
the Onondagas at one time owned Cazenovia lake and its outlet. 
Mr Morgan himself divided Cross lake by the eastern line of the 
Cayugas, while the Onondagas had clearings west of it. He also 
placed Sodus bay, well known as the Bay of the Cayugas, in the 
Seneca territory. The Cayugas themselves at one time had villages 
north of Lake Ontario, and on the Susquehanna at a later day. 
It will be seen, also, that the Mahikans are here placed on both 
sides of the Hudson, at Albany and vicinity. ‘'Wassenaer wrote 
distinctly of “the Maikans, a nation lying 25 (Dutch) miles on 
both sides of the river, upwards.” They alone sold Killian Van 
Rensselaer a tract of two days inland on each side of the river; 
a map of his patent will show very nearly their western claims. At 
the Saratoga purchase, in 1683, some Mahikans were present and 
quit-claimed any titles to those lands, which the Mohawks had con- 
quered from them. Their lands extended into Massachusetts, where 
they took refuge in 1630. They were Algonquins, having close 
family relations with those east and south of them.. The Minsis or 
Munseys were of the same stock, being a part of the Delaware 
people. Though distinguished locally, the tribes from Kingston to 
Westchester county are often classed as Esopus Indians. 
The Susquehanna river was held in Pennsylvania by the Iroquois 
family. Of these the Gachoi, or Gachoos, alone had land in New 
York, nor did they live there long. Below them were the 
Capitanasses and ihe Minquas; the latter being the Andastes of 
the French. Collectively and later, all these were known to the 
English as Susquehannas or Conestogas. 
A brief summary is given of the traces of aboriginal séeupatin 
near the boundaries of New York but outside of the line. South 
of Lake Champlain and in New England the Algonquin sites pre- 
