I acknowledge, with pleasure and gratitude, the valuable assistance I have received from the Rev. Chas. Baird. D. D., historian of Rye; Edward F. Delancey, Esq.; Geo. H. Pell, Esq.; Fordam Morris, Esq.; Josiah Mitchel, Esq., and the Rev. O. R. Willis, of White Plains, who has compiled the Flora Table for this work. And I also take this opportunity of returning thanks to all those kind friends who have in any way assisted my late brother in the present Revised Edition.

MAP OP THE INDIAN TERRITORY, WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

INTRODUCTION.

AT the period of the Dutch discovery the Mahicanni resided on the east shore of the Hudson River. " These were the MankikanizxsA Mahikans of De Leat, the Mahiccanders, Mohickanders and Nahmanders of the Dutch, the Manhikanss Mahikans, or Mohegans, according to Professor Ebeling, and the Mohegans or Mithltckanew, (the original name of Mohegans.) According to the English the Mohiccans, Mahiccon, and lastly Mahiccans, were all one people j originally a branch of the Delaware nation. The Mahiccans and Delawares both say they were once one people "rt " The best information (says Mr. Heckewelder) which I could procure of the extent of the country the Mahicanin inhabited, was from an aged and intelligent man of this nation, whose grandfather had been a noted chief. His report was as follows, to wit : ' When I was a a boy, my grandfather used to speak much of old times : how it had been before the white people came into this country, (that is the State of New York, in which the relator was born,) and what changes took place since, from time to time. The western bounding line of the Mahicanni was the river Ma'hicamittuck, which the white people now call the ' North River.' Our towns and settlements extended on the east side of this river from Thuphane or Tuphanne, (a Delaware word for cold stream, from which the whites have derived the name Tappan,) to the extent of tide water up this river; here was the uppermost town.