Schaghticoke (New York)

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Information provided about a party of Indians from Canada who attacked numerous colonial settlements

The examination of an Indian called Magsigpen, alias Graypoole, and by the Albany people, Aert, being examined saith that, returning from Canada with the Mohawks, who had been a fighting there, left said Mohawks in the lake and went with the Schaghticoke Indians a hunting, being eight together in numbers coming upon a creek called Magkaneweck, met with four Indians, vizt., Jethro and others, and so went down said creek together and were seen by eleven Indians that formally live