In some of the early deeds called "Lawrence's Plantation," a name undoubtedly derived from one of its original proprietors.

At the period of the Dutch discovery, this town formed a part of the Indian territory of Wikagyl as laid down in the Dutch caste of 1 614.

The aboriginal name of the town itself was Weckquaskeck; afterwards varied to Weckqucesquesck and Wiequceshook ; in pure Algonquin, Weec-quas-guck, the place of the bark kettle." Opposite Tappaan. (says De Vries, in 1640,) lies a place called Wickquaesqueeck.

Van Trenhoven describing the place remarks: " Wichquaesqueek, on the North River, five (twenty) miles above New Amsterdam, is a right good and suitable land for cultivation; contains considerable maize land, which the Indians planted, rising from the shore. In the interior the country is flat and mostly even, very abundantly watered with small streams and running fountains. This land is situate between two rivulets called Sintsinck and Armonck, lying between the East, and North Rivers. " Bedenkinge over het aenvaerden van de landeryen in N. Nederlant."''

To a large current of water which descends through the village of Dobb's Ferry and falls into the Hudson at the upper landing, the

a Schoolcraft's paper Prop. X. Y. Hist Soc. 1S44. In the Delaware language Wi-qui-Jeek, signitiis the head of a creek or run. See Essay of Delaware Indian and English spelling book for the use of the schools of the Christian Indians on Muskingum River, by Dau'l Leisberger. Miss, among Western Indinas, Phila., 1776.

b O'Callaghan's Ilist. N. N. p. 240.