These villages were located where there were special advantages for fishing, or where a light and easilyworked soil was favorable for cultivation.

The Manhattans had three villages upon Manhattan Island. Their largest village in this county was Nappeckamak, which occupied the site of the present city of Yonkers. At the southern end of the original township of Yonkers, overlooking the Hudson River (Mahicanituk) and Spuyten Duyvil Creek (Papirinimen,) they had a fortress which they called Nipinichsen.

The Weckquaesgeeks had their principal village at the mouth of Wysquaqua, where the village of Dobb's Ferry now stands. It was called by the tribal name. Until recently its site was designated by extensive shell-beds. They had another village at the mouth of the Pocantico, on the site now occupied by Tarrytown. This village was called Alipconck. They had another village by the Neperhan, west of White Plains.

The Sint Sinks had a village called Ossing-Sing, where "The Kill" empties into the Hudson at Sing Sing. They had a smaller village at the moulii of the Kitchawan or Croton River.

The Kitchawancs had a large village upon Van Cortlandt's Neck, connecting Croton Point with the mainland. They had here the strongest fortress of any in the county. Like Nipinichsen, it was a heavily-palisaded stockade. They had another village upon Verplanck's Point and a larger one called Sackhoes, where Peekskill now stands.

The Siwanoys were a numerous tribe. They had a village upon Pelham Neck, ill the present town of Pelham ; another on Davenport's Neck, in New Rochelle ; and their largest settlement upon the shores of Rye Pond, in the present town of Harrison. Here was a very extensive burial-ground. There was also a settlement near Rye Beach. They had another village in the southern part of the town of Westchester, near Bear Swamp.