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 44 HISTORY OF grist had been emptied into the hopper he saw the miller go to a small bin near by, and, taking a measure, filled it from the grain in the hopper, and emptied it back into the bin. The boy kept watch, and when a favourable opportunity presented itself, and when the miller's back was turned, he filled the measure out of the bin, and emptied it back into the hopper, replacing what he supposed the miller had intended to steal. To use his own words, he said : I felt really proud of what I had done, and when I returned home that night I related to my father what had transpired at the mill, telling him that the miller did not get much the best of me, ' for he struck the measure full he took out of the hopper, while I heaped up the one I put in that he was a big thief, for there was a large bin full of grain, which I felt sure he had stolen in like manner. My father laughed heartily over the joke, and then explained to me that this was the way they were paid for the use of their mill.'' The tribe of Indians who occupied this village near Marga- retville, and which, in the Indian dialect, was called Pakatakan, said to signify the union of two streams in one, (an appropriate cognomen, as it was at this place that the Dry-brook stream falls into the East Branch,) according to 0. Callighan's His- tory of New York, were the Wappinger Indians of Dutchess county and Esopus ; and according to the same account, this same tribe had a couple of other villages farther down the river in Colchester, one of which they called Papagouck and the other Pepacton. The following information kindly furnished by Dl*. 0. M. Allaben, of Margaretville, who has evinced much interest in the compilation of this work, coming to hand too late to become incorporated in the thread of my history, and although some parts are a repetition of the foregoing, we have inserted it in full. We regret to state in this place, that so few per-