HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

fill it. There are to be 20 cables in 4 systems; each cable will be about 14 inches diameter; the cables contain 371,195,750 feet of steel wire, or about 70,302 miles of steel wire; total weight of iron and steel in the bridge, 17,005 tons; total amount of masonry, 58,084 cubic yards; total suspended weight, 9,651 tons; height of towers above water, 280 feet. The bridge will leave the water-way of the river untouched."

In early provincial times a tribe of Indians named the Wabingi, occupied the Highland, called by them Kettatenny Mountains. Thenprincipal settlement, designated Wickapy, was situated in the vicinity of Anthony's Nose.°

Four miles south of Peekskill lies Verplanck's Point. This territory called by the Indians Meahagh, was bounded on the east by lands of Appamagpogh and the creek Meanagh, on the south by the same creek, on the west by the Hudson, and on the north by the creek Tammoesis.

Prior to 1683 the territory of Meahagh belonged to Siecham the great sachem of Sachus and other Indians, a clan of the Mohegans or " Enchanted Wolf Tribe," who sold the same to De Heer Stephanus van Cortlandt. At the death of Stephanus it passed by will to his oldest son Johannes second lord of the Manor of Cortlandt, and afterwards descended by marriage to Philip Verplanck, from whom the neck acquired its present appellation. This individual married Gertrude, only daughter and heiress of the above Johannes.

In 1734, Verplanck's Point (consisting of one thousand acres) was held by John Lent, who paid therefor the yearly rent of one pepper-corn on the feast day of St. Michael the archangel.