The Mohegans were again sub-divided into numerous bands, each known by a distinctiye name. Among these, inhabiting the County, may be enumerated the Siwanoys, who occupied the northern shores of the Sound *• from Norwalk to 24 miles to the neighborhood of Hellgate." How far they claimed jurisdiction inland is uncertain.

The Manhattans had their principal settlement on New York island, and from thence north to the bounds of Yonkers, nearly opposite T'«pp^n, The WECKauASj^Ecics possessed the

*■ Proceedings of N. Y. Hist. See. 1844, 8/.

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country '' lying between two rivulets called the Smt Sinck and ArtJionck, lying between the East and North rivers."

The Si NT Sincks occupied the present town of Ossin ing, and its immediate vicinity. ^

The KiTCHAWoNKs claimed the lands bordering the Kitchawan or Crotoii 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 :

Nappeckamak, Kestaubaiuck,

Weecquaesguck, Kitchawan,

Alipconck, Sackhoes,

Sinck Sinck. Kekisconck,

Nanichiestawack, Betuck-quapock,

Momoronuck, Pasquashic. Noapaim.

" The three prominent Indian names for the Hudson River, (says Mr. Schoolcraft) are 'The MohegaUj^ Chatemuc," and the Cahotalea."

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

* O'Callaghan's Hist, of N. N., 240.

b Mohegan River.

e " Shaila, in the cognate dialect of the Odjibwa, means a pelican." " Uc is the ordinary inflection for locality "-^Mr. Schoolcraft's Paper, Proceedings of N. Y. Hist. Soc 1844. " The great white pelican (P. trachyrhyncus) was formerly numerous on the Hudson and other rivers and lakes of this State. At the present dayit has entirely disappeared, and I do not know of its existence even as an accidental visitor."-- Nat.