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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I

Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848. 292 words

The daughter of Mrs- Hutchinson remained a prisoner four ^ears, when she was delivered to the Dutch governor at New York, who restored her to her friends. She had forgotten her native lanci^uago, and was unwilling to be taken from the Indians. "=^ The residence of Anne Hutchinson appears to have been situated on Peiham neck, formerly called An)i^s hoeck, literally, Ann's point or neck, hoeck being a Dutch name for a neck or point, for, up to a very late period, her farm was distinguished as the Manor of Anne hooks neck. A small stream that separates this town from Eastchester on the west still retains her surhame lIntc]iinson''s river. One of the principal Indian proprietors of this territory also assumed her christian surname, as we find it recorded in the early deeds. Ann-hoock alias Wampage. This individual may have taken an active part in the destruction of Mrs. Hutchinson, for nothing was more common among the Indians than for a warrior to assume the name of his victim.^

Upon the 14th of November. 1654, Thomas Pell of Fairfield, in Connecticut, obtained a grant frora the ancient Indian proprietors, embracing all that territory bounded on tlie east by a stream called Stoney brook or river, and so running northward as the said brook or river runs, eight English miles into the woods, thence west to Broncks's river, then down the stream of Broncks's river to a certain bend in the said river, thence by marked trees south until it reaches the tide waters of the Sound which lyeth between Long Island and the main land, together with all the kland in the sound, (fcc, &c. This grant was sigued by the sachem Ann-hoock and five other Indians. A. Dyckuian occurs as