Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river the next morning, believing he had found the great strait of water which would bring him to China and the Asia of that day. Little did he realize that within a hundred years from the night he gazed up Croton's River, a kingdom would be created there producing more wealth and power than he would ever know. The point of land which sheltered the Half Moon was known to the Indians as Senasqua. The rushing river, emptying its fresh waters into the salty Hudson below Senasqua was named after the chief of the Kitchawan tribe of Indians. His name was pronounced in three different ways: Kenoten, Knoten or Noten; and it meant "The Wind." As the years went by, and as all Indian names are phonetically transcribed, the final name for Kenoten's River became as we know it now, Croton River, and the white man liked it so well that we soon had Croton Lake, Croton Falls, Croton Landing, Croton Dam, Croton Aqueduct and even Croton Avenue in Ossining. The Indian name for the Point had not only been Senasqua but, at times, Sen-as-chal; then for a full hundred years, it was called Teller's Point, and at times Sara's Point. After Henry Hudson visited the site of Croton in 1609, the Kitchawan Indians continued to occupy it and -all the hinterlands rich with

wild game, fish, fruits and fertile soil. As the Dutch burghers of New York and Albany prospered and grew more powerful, the choice fowling and fishing attractions of the Croton River region lured the officials and sportsmen of the seventeenth century. Came the Van Cortlandts ! The year the Half Moon sailed up the Hudson and nestled below Senasqua at the mouth of the Kenoten's River, there lived in south Holland a sturdy Dutch couple, Stevan and Catherine Van Cortlandt.