Linguistically, the Mohegans were more closely allied to the tribes of New England than to those of the Delaware Valley. Evidently, most of the tribes of Massachusetts and Connecticut were comparatively recent offshoots of the parent stem on the Hudson, supposing the course of migration had been eastward. In some of his unpublished notes Mr. Heckewelder identifies the _Wampanos_, who lived in Connecticut, along the shore of Long Island Sound, and whose council fire was where New Haven now stands, as Mohegans, while the _Wapings_ or _Opings_ of the Northern Jersey shore were a mixed clan derived from intermarriages between Mohegans and Monseys.[22] _The Nanticokes_. The Nanticokes occupied the territory between Chesapeake Bay and the ocean, except its southern extremity, which appears to have been under the control of the Powhatan tribe of Virginia. The derivation of Nanticoke is from the Delaware _Unéchtgo_, "tide-water people," and is merely another form of _Unalachtgo_, the name of one of the Lenape sub-tribes. In both cases it is a mere geographical term, and not a national eponym. In the records of the treaty at Fort Johnston, 1757, the Nanticokes are also named _Tiawco_. This is their Mohegan name, _Otayãchgo_, which means "bridge people," or bridge makers, the reference being to the skill with which the Nanticokes could fasten floating logs together to construct a bridge across a stream. In the Delaware dialect this was _Tawachguáno_, from _taiachquoan_, a bridge. The latter enables us to identify the Tockwhoghs, whom Captain John Smith met on the Chesapeake, in 1608, with the Nanticokes. The _Kuscarawocks_, whom he also visited, have been conclusively shown by Mr. Bozman[23] to have been also Nanticokes. By ancient traditions, they looked up to the Lenape as their "grandfather," and considered the Mohegans their "brethren."[24] That is, they were, as occasion required, attached to the same confederacy. In manners and customs they differed little from their northern relatives. The only peculiarity in this respect which is noted of them was the extravagant consideration they bestowed on the bones of the dead. The corpse was buried for some months, then exhumed and the bones carefully cleaned and placed in an ossuary called _man-to-kump_ (= _manito_, with the locative termination, place of the mystery or spirit). When they removed from one place to another these bones were carried with them. Even those who migrated to northern Pennsylvania, about the middle of the last century, piously brought along these venerable relics, and finally interred them near the present site of Towanda, whence its name, _Tawundeunk_, "where we bury our dead."[25] Their dialect varied considerably from the Delaware; of which it is clearly a deteriorated form. It is characterized by abbreviated words and strongly expirated accents, as _tah! quah! quak! su_, short; _quah! nah! qut_, long.