Tarrenteens. 
Churhers (local tribes even then under instruction). 
Aberginians (Algonquins of the St. Lawrence, probably). 
Narragansetts (a tribe of the N.E.  Algonquins with dialectic peculiarities). 
Pequants (” " “)
Nepnets (” " “)
Connectacuts (” " “)
Mohawks (a tribe of Iroquois).

The people whom he calls “Tarrenteens,” are clearly Abenakies.

Cotton Mather, L. of E., 1691, p. 78, denominates the Indians “the veriest ruins of mankind.  Their name for an Englishman was a knifeman; stone was used instead of metal for their tools; and for their coins they have only little beads, with holes in them, to string them upon a bracelet, whereof some are white, and of these there go six for a penny; some are black or blue, and of these go three for a penny; this wampum, as they call it, is made of shell fish, which lies upon the sea-coast continually.”

P. 79. “Nokehick, that is, a spoonful of parched meal with a spoonful of water, which will strengthen them to travel a day.”

“Reading and writing are altogether unknown to them, though there is a stone or two in the country that has unaccountable characters engraved upon it.”

The intention of the King in granting the royal charter to Massachusetts was, says Cotton Mather:—­

“To win and invite the natives of that country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, is our Royal intentions, and the adventurer’s free profession is the principal end of the plantation.”—­Life of Eliot, p. 77.

10th.  Died at Little Traverse Bay, on Lake Michigan, Ningwegon, or the Wing, the well-known American-Ottawa chief—­a man who distinguished himself for the American cause at Detroit, in 1812, and was thrown into prison by the British officers for his boldness in expressing his sentiments.  He received a life annuity under the treaty of 28th March, 1836.

11th.  Received notice of my election as a corresponding member of the Brooklyn Lyceum.

12th.  A small party of chiefs of the Seneca tribe under the command of “Blacksmith,” successor to Red Jacket, arrived in this city yesterday from Washington, and took lodgings at the Western Hotel in Courtland Street.  They were received by the Mayor at the Governor’s room about 12 o’clock.  In the address made by one of the number, it was stated that the object of their visit had been to urge upon the President the impropriety of driving them from their present possessions.

13th, PEACE AMONG THE INDIANS.—­The two nations of Upper and Lower Creeks, who were hostile while residing east of the Mississippi, have, in their new homes in Arkansas, united in general council, at which fifteen hundred were present.  The oratory on this occasion, of smoking the calumet, is described as of the highest order.