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 52 A SYNOPSIS OF THE INDIAN TRIBES. [iNTROD. he designates the Wighcomocos,the Kuskarawaock,the Ozimies, and the Tockwoghs, amounting together to four hundred and sixty warriors. He makes no mention of the Nanticokes, but, on his map, a village of that name is placed on the Choctanck River ; and we are informed by Mr. Heckewelder that the Nanticokes were called by the Delawares Tawachguano, in which name that of Tockwoghs is easily recognised. In more recent times, all the Indians of the eastern shore of Maryland have been embraced under the general designation of Nanticokes. We learn from Charles Thompson,* that they were forced by the Five Na- tions to enter into an alliance with them ; a fact easily account- ed for, by the erection of the Maqua fort twelve miles from Newcastle, by their geographical situation, and by their weak- ness. During the first part of the eighteenth century they began to migrate up the Susquehanna, where they had lands allotted to them by the Six Nations, and were after a while admitted as a seventh nation into that confederacy. At the treaty of 1758, Tokaaio, a Cayuga chief, spoke in behalf of the five younger nations, to wit, the Cayugas, the Oneidas, the Tuscaroras, the Nanticokes and Conoys, and the Tuteloes. The Conoys were either a tribe of the Nanticokes or intimate- ly connected with them. Charles Thompson calls the nation Nanticokes or Conoys, but confounds them with the Tuteloes. Mr. Heckewelder thinks the Conoys to be the same people with the Kanhawas. This last name is identical with that of the western river Kanhawa, and it might have been supposed that the Kanhawas were a tribe living on that river, and that called by the Five Nations Cochnowas, which at the confer- ences of Lancaster (1744) they said they had destroyed. But it seems certain that the Indians on the heads of the Potomac were called Ganawese and Canhawaas.f The Nanticokes and Conoys, being the allies of the Six Nations, remained on the Susquehanna till the commence- ment of the war of the revolution, when they removed to the west and joined the British standard. They do not appear to exist any longer as a nation, but are still found, mixed with other tribes, both in the United States and in Canada. The vocabulary of their language is extracted from two manuscripts in Mr. Duponceau's collection, one taken by Mr. f See hereafter under the head of Susquehannocks.
 * Appendix to Jefferson's Notes on Virginia.