The Weckquaskecks possessed the country " lying between two rivulets called Sift/ Sincks and Armanci, lying between the East and North rivers."

The Sint Sincks occupied the present town of Ossin ing, and its im- t mediate vicinity.

The Kitchawonks claimed the lands bordering the Kitchawan or Croton River, and as far north as St. Anthony's Nose in the Highlands. The Pachami and Wappingers possessed the Highlands. The Tankitekes, "resided in the rear of Sing Sing."° The principal Indian villages appear to have been as follows :

" The three prominent Indian names for the Hudson River (says Mr. Schoolcraft) are 'The Mohegan,6 Chatemuc,c and the Cahotatea."

Like their neighbors, the Indians of Westchester were in subjection to the Iroquois, and acknowledged it by the payment of an annual tribute.

In giving a history of the County, it appears proper to begin, with a recital of the act framing the same, entitled " An Act to divide the Province of New York and dependencies into Shires and Counties, etc."

" Having taken into consideration the necessity of dividing the Province into respective Countys, for the better governing and settling

o O'Callahan's Hist, of N. N., 210. b Mohegan Kiver.

e " Shaita, In the cognate dialect of the Objlbwa, means a pelican." " re is the ordinary Inflection for locality. ,--- Mr. Schoolcraft's Paper, Proceedings of N. Y. riist. Soc 1S44. "The great white pelican |P. trachyrhyncus) was formerly nunierou* ou the fludson and other rivers and lakes of this State. At the present day It has entirely disappeared, and I do not know of Its existence even as an accidental visitor. '--Nat. Hist, of N. Y. by James De Kav.