Note 20 — VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

The Conoys and Nanticokes were fragments of Indian tribes which had removed from the South—driven forth by the pressure of English population—and with the consent of the Six Nations had settled on the upper waters of the Susquehanna.

In the third league the author probably intends to include the so-called “Ohio Indians”—the Miamis (Wanamis), Delawares, Mohicans, Munseys (a sub-tribe of the Delawares), the Wapingers (unidentified), and the Mingoes—who were all subordinate to the Six Nations. The Creeks were a powerful confederacy in Alabama, of which Coweta was the principal war-town on the Chattahoochee River.—Ed.