128 
1788, when they joined the Chero- 
kis. 
6. Nansamonds or Nansamongs, 
dwelt in the county bearing their 
name in Virginia. Towards 1740 
they joined the Tuscarbras. As 
late as 1750 they used to fish and 
winter in Nansamond cy. 
7. Pamunkeys, dwelt on Pamun- 
key R. They are there yet, redu- 
ced to a few individuals in 1822. 
One of them was put in a cage or 
round house for theft at Richmond, 
he was very strong and outrageous. 
A few Nottoways and Pamunkeys 
wander occasionally through the 
streets in a degraded state. They 
have but seldom intermarried with 
93. The Last Indians of New- 
Jehsey. 
In 1802 and 1830 I collected the 
following information in New Jer- 
sey. 
The last tribes that remained in 
the state after the treaties and great 
emigration of the Raritans, Mini- 
sinks, &c. or Northern Indians, in 
1758 and 1760, were the following. 
1. Manahoking tribe on ManUho- 
king bay now Little Egg Harbor. 
«2. Malicas, on R. ditto, now Lit- 
tle Egg H. R. 
3. Mantas on Ancocus creek* 
4. Monolapans on R. ditto now 
Cranberry R. 
All these were fragments <of the 
Naraticong tribe of the NanticokeS 
of South New Jersey. 
They gradually concentrated them- 
selves near Absecum or Great Egg 
Harbor, and on Balsto R\ now Egg 
Harbor R. at the head of which was 
their largest village of Shemung, or 
Chemunk where they dwelt peace- 
fully during the war of the revolution 
on their reserved land. 
Shemung was in the Pine barrens, 
between Atsion and Tuckerton, 
The Indians had become Christians, 
they were good neighbors, peaceful, 
never broke their word and all spoke 
English. They manufactured bas- 
kets for sale and would cut willow 
twigs any where, which they did not 
deem stealing, but was not liked by 
the whites. They often intermarried 
with the whites, but seldom With 
negroes. 
Although their lands and reserva- 
tions were unalienable and secured 
for them in trustees hands, they felt 
their situation uncomfortable, their 
land being very poor. Therefore 
they often applied to the legislature 
to allow them to sell and buy better 
lands among the Oneidas of New 
York. 
After many applications and refu- 
sals, because all did not agree to the 
sale, the legislature of New Jersey 
in 1805 allowed them to compro- 
mise, and either go or stay. About 
120 sold their shares of the lands 
and removed to Shemung or New 
Stockbridge among the Oneidas, led 
by their Sachem Jacob Skiket, who 
had been educated at Princeton: 
Some of them had white women for 
wives who went along. About 25 
refused to go at ail and remained on 
small farms. Of these only 6 re- 
mained at or near Shemung of New 
Jersey in 1830, who work and hunt 
on the Pine barrens. A few others 
are rambling through the state, they 
sometimes come to Philadelphia on 
a visit, and dress like us. 
C. S. Rafinesque. 
94. Jhscription of an ancient Mex- 
ican historical manuscript. 
By Professor C . S. Rafinesque. 
This singular manuscript is pre- 
served in the library of the Philoso- 
phical Society of Philadelphia, and 
is a fac simile of another in Mexico. 
It was sent I believe by Mr. Poin- 
sett. * . 
It forms a roll about 10 feet long 
and 8 inches wide, divided into 30 
compartiments or scenes or events! 
from right to left the principal names 
have been added in our letters. 
It appears to relate to some of the 
earliest migrations of the Mexican 
nation, since it begins at a navigation 
by water and terminates at a third 
Golhuacan, a place of note in early 
negroes. 
