The totem of the Wappingers as well as that of the Esopus clans, was the Wolf, as already stated, while below the Highlands came the Turkey of the 1 " Daniel Nimham, a native Indian have always had a sachem or king whom and acknowledged sachem or king of a they have acknowledged to be the head certain tribe of Indians known and called of the tribe, and that, by a regular line of by the name of Wappingtrs, represents succession the government of the tribe that the tribe formerly were numerous, descended to the said present sachem." — at present consists of about two hundred New York Land Papers, xvm, 127. and twenty-seven persons j that they O.P HUDSON'S RIPER. 85 Lenapes, constituting a clear distinction from their neighbors on the opposite shore.

Gallatin strengthens the error by introduc ing the fact that the Wappingers were a party to the treaty of Easton, but was evidently without knowledge that they were recent emigrants from New York.1