Upon the Shubal Lyon property, northeast of the village, is situated the Indian burying-ground Remains of extensive Indian works exist on the elevated ground north of Heathcote Hill, and of the late Mr. Benjamin Brown's residence, called Nelson's Hill. They consist of distinct long round ridges, with corresponding depressions, and of four circular pits in the form of a square, having a

a De I.act's New World, chap. vUL b N. Y. Hist. Soc. vol. i. 29B-S0T. c O'Oallahau's Hist. N. N. 302.

d There were two kinds of seawant, wampum or Indian money, viz. :-- wampum, (white.) and stickaubock, (black.) The white was manufactured from the Mehcaubock Periwinkle. The black of the Quahaug.

THE TOWN OF MAMARONECK.

small mound upon the south. " The use of these excavations it is impossible to imagine, unless we suppose them to have been used by the aborigines in defence; an idea that is rather favored by the circular mound on the south, as if made puqiosely to receive the palisade." The site of other Indian works are very apparent on the west side of Heathcote Hill. We have shown that the lands belonging to this town were originally purchased of the native Indians, by the Dutch West India Company, in 1640. Their next proprietor was John Richbell, who appears from the following document to have been united with two others, all at that time residents of the Island of Barbadoes, W. I., in the purchase and settling of a Plantation in the south-western part of New England, A.D. 165 7 :