[16] Documents relating to the _Colonial History of New York_, vol. VII, p. 44. [17] _League of the Iroquois_, p. 120. [18] _Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia in the Revolution_, Kidder, p. 286. [19] It is interesting in this connection to notice the manner in which the chiefs affixed their names to early deeds. In the deed of New Haven given by the Quinnipiacs [see Appendix IV, DeForest's Indians of Conn.], may be seen as autographs, an arrow, a bow, a drawn bow, a war club, a tobacco pipe, a snake, a wolf (apparently), a wild fowl, etc., etc. [20] _League of the Iroquois_, p. 119. [21] President Stiles's _Itinerary_, unpublished. [22] _League of the Iroquois_, page 188. [23] Thomson's _Long Island_, p. 62. [24] _League of the Iroquois_, p. 331. [25] It is stated in _Winthrop's Journal_ [p. 147 and after], that four servants of Plymouth were condemned and hung upon their own confession of having murdered an Indian to obtain his wampum. [26] In the tomb, apparently of a chief, in the Grove Creek Mound, 1700 beads were found around the remains of a skeleton, and such deposits are frequently found in opening old graves. [27] Winthrop, I, 113. [28] Bradford's _Letters_, _Mass. Hist. Collections_, III, 54. [29] _Doc. Rel. to Colonial History of New York_, I, 459. [30] Lawson's _History of North Carolina_, ed. of 1714, page 315. [31] Rhode Island _Colonial Records_, I, 130. [32] _Winthrop_, pages 147, 149 and 192. [33] Thompson's _Long Island_, page 62. [34] _Hazard_, II, page 413. [35] _Hazard_, III, page 44. [36] _Hazard_, II, pages 387 and 388. [37] Thompson's _Long Island_, page 60. [38] _Records of Mass._, I, 238. Where only one rate is mentioned, as here, we are probably to understand the white, and deduct one-half for the black or blue. [39] _Colonial Records of Conn._, I, 12. [40] _Records of Mass._, I, p. 302. [41] _Ibid._, p. 329. [42] _Col. Records of Conn._, I, 179. [43] _Records of Mass._, II, 261. [44] _Records of Mass._, I, 323. [45] _Records of Mass._, II, 279. [46] _Ibid._, IV, p. 36. [47] _Records of Mass._, IV, part 2, pages 4, 5. [48] _R. Island Colonial Records_, I, page 474. [49] Madam Knight's _Journal_, written in 1704, page 43. [50] _Doc. Relating to the Colonial Hist. of New York_, I, 474. [51] _Ibid._, p. 336. [52] _Ibid._, p. 425. [53] O'Callaghan's _New Netherland_, I, 230. [54] _Doc. Col. Hist. of New York_, II, p. 371. [55] Proud's _Hist. of Pennsylvania_, I, page 133. [56] Hazzard's _Annals of Pennsylvania_. [57] O'Callaghan's _New Netherland_, I, 61. [58] O'Callaghan's _New Netherland_, I, _ibid._ [59] Schoolcraft's _Notes on the Iroquois_. Transcriber's Note: Archaic spellings have been retained. Abbreviations have been normalised. Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst more significant amendments are listed below: P. 10, "Pyrula canicalata" to _Pyrula caniculata_.