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.

THE TOWN OF GREENBURGH.

Indians gave the name of Weghqueghe or Wysquaqua, by the English called afterwards Wickers creek or William Portugues creek.

At the mouth of this beautiful stream the powerful tribe of the Wichquaesqueeks, had erected a village which was standing in the time of Nicholas Johannes Visschers, (Nicholas John Visschers,) for in his map of Novum Belgium, published at Amsterdam, 1659," he calls it AYickquaskek, a name which was also applied to the surrounding lands as already shown. The site of this ancient village can still be traced on the neighboring banks by the numerous " Indian shell beds" which in some places are found to vary from two to three feet in depth. Another Mohegan village occupied the site of Tarrytown, called in the Algonquin, "Alipkonck," "Anneebikong ? " place of leaves or " rich foliage,"6 "Above Weckquaskcck, says Schoolcraft, was the village of Alipkonck, that is " a place of elms."c

On the map of "Novum Belgium" it is also styled Alipconck, which clearly shows it was standing in 1659.