There is perhaps no town in the county belter watered by rivers, brooks, and spring?.

* Mr. Elijiih Miller (who is since deceased,, was a soldier of the Revolution. b DistunieU'p Gazetteer, N. Y.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 377

YORKTOWN.

Wiiite Plains, distant forty-two miles from New York, and one hundred and seventeen from Albany, ''bounded north by Putnam county, east by Somers and New Castle, south by New Castle, and west by Cortlandt. Its length, north and south, ten miles, and it is nearly four miles wide.

Prior to 1788, Yorktown and Somers constituted the old township of Hanover, within Cortlandt's manor. »• A portion of the former early acquired the name of Gertrude's borough, in honor of Gertrude Beeckman, wife of Colonel Henry Beeckman, and one of the daughters and devisees of Stephanus van Cortlandt.

The Mohegan term Appa?naghpogh appears to iiave been applied to the whole Indian territory within the manor, west of Cortlandtown. The eastern section of Yorktown still bears the name of Afjiaioalk, probably an abbreviation and corruption of the former term, thus Appamaghpogh, Amag/ipogh, or Amawalk. The lands of Appa?nog/tpogh were originally granted to Stephamus van Cortlandt in 1(383, by the Indian sachems Pewemind, Oskewans, and others, as mentioned in our description of Somers, (fcc.

The principal aboriginal settlement in this part of Appamaghpogh occupied the summit of Indian hill, a vast height, wliich rises to an elevation of nearly six hundred feet above the northern margin of Lake Magrigaries, (Hollow Lake) situated in Jefferson valley. On the southern side of the hill lies the Indian burying -ground. The remains of several Indians have been lately disinterred near the residence of Dr. Fountain, whose property borders on the lake. Indian hill is also memorable as the last spot inhabited by a band of aborigines in Westchester