" Appeared before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of the New Netherlands, Fecquemeck, Rechgawac, Packanniens, owners of Kekeshick, which they did freely convey, cede, 6cc. &c, to the behoof of the General Incorporated West India Company^ which lies over against the flats of the Island cf Manhates, mostly east and west, beginning at the source of the said Kill till over against the high hill of the flat lands -- to wit, by the great Kill, together with all the rights, estate and title to them, the grantees.

a Benson's Mera. of N. Y.

i Act passed 7th March. 1-788. Rev. Stat. vol. iii. 386,

Vol. n. 5,1

402. ■ HISTORY OF THE

<fcc. (fcc. In lestimony of the truth of which, this is subscribed

by witnesses. Done 3d of August, 1639, at Fort Amsterdam, in

New Netherland.'i

Cornelius van der Hovken, ? . . T^ • 1 X.- -. -rr ■ f ^s witnesses.

Uavidt Piettersen ue Vries, )

In presence of me Cornelis van Tienhoven, Sec'y." How long the Dutch West india Company held the lands of Kekeshick, does not appear ; but about the year A. D. 1646, we find the Indian sachem Tackareiv, granting lands in this town to Adriaen van der Donck> In this sale the town is called Nepperhaem,<^ an Indian name frequently applied to the village. Eighty years later we find it varied to Nepperah^'^ the proper Indian orthography of which is evidently Nap-pe-c/ia-mak, rendered literally the ^- rapid waiter settlement^ 4'hus graphically expressing the situation of the Mohegan village, at the mouth of the Neperah, or rapid waters. e In the deep seclusion of the ancient forests that once bordered this beautiful stream, were located other Indian villages, some of the sites of which tradition has preserved to us ; one of these occupied the eastern edge of Boar Hill.