A tribe of Indians named the Wabingi occupied the highlands called by them Kettatenny Mountains. Their principal settlement, (designated Wickapy,) was situated in the vicinity of Antony's Nose.''

Four miles south of Peekskill lies Yerplanck's Point. This place, called by the Indians Meahagh, was bounded on the east by the 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 16S3 the territory of Meahagh belonged to Siecham, sachem of Sachus and other Indians, who sold the same to Stephanus van Cortlandt, At the death of Stephanus it passed by will to his eldest son Johannes, and afterwards descended by marriage to Philip Terplanck, from whom the neck acquired its present appellation. This individual married Gertrude, only daughter and heiress of the above Johannes.

In 1734 Yerplanck'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. The Yerplanck's subsequently sold the Point to the present proprietors, John Henry and others, for the sum of nearly $300,000.

The Yerplanck family descend from Abraham Jacobsen Yerplanck; of New Amsterdam, whose son Gulian was a wealthy merchant of the same place in 16S3. The son of Gulian was Philip Yerplanck, of Yerplanck's Point.

This branch of the flmiily is now represented by Philip Yerplanck, Esq., of New Windsor, grandson of the last mentioned