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

a The present townsliip was erected 7lli Marcli, 1788. Kev. Statutes, 486

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county. On the eastern border of the town is situated the Indian cemetery of Amawalk.

Upon the partition of the manor of Cortlandt among the heirs of Stephanus van Cortlandt in the year 1734, the following allotments were made in this town.

North lot No. 2, Andrew Miller; ditto No. 3, Gertrude Beeckman ; ditto No. 4, Cornelia Schuyler and her husband, Col. John Schuyler. This gentleman was the father of the illustrious Gen. Philip Schuyler. Middle lot No. 2 and 3, Gertrude Verplanck ; ditto No. 4, Elizabeth Skinner ; south lot No. 1, bordering the Croton river, John Watts; ditto Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, Philip Yerplank ; ditto No. 8, Gertrude Beeckman ; ditto No. 9. Susannah Warren. Subsequently the devisees and their heirs made other divisions,

A. U. 1784, Andrew Miller, sold to John Strang a farm in west range of north lot No. 2, consisting of 200 acres which he purchased of John Watts.