3 Memoir, N. V. Hist. Soc. Coll., II. series, vol. 2, p. 85.

The Indians of Westchester County were therefore Mahicans, or Mohicans, as it is easier to call them, of the Turkey tribe or clan of the Lenni-Lenape, or Delaware, stock of North American aborigines. They Avere divided into several sub-tribes, cantons, or chieftaincies, each ruled by a Sacchima, as the Dutch called the title, or Sagamore, or Sachem, and owning its own specific location.

Upon the island of New York, and in Westchester west of the Bronx, and as far north as Yonkers, were seated the Manahatas, as de Laet calls them, or the Manhattans; those of them in Westchester were also

DEL.VWAKK IXDIAX 1-A.Mll.Y. (From Campanius' " New Sweileii.")

termed the Reckewacks, or Reckgawawancks, their territory, Kcskeskick, and their chief village, Nappeckamak, was situated on the Nepperhaeni, now Neperan, or Sawmill river, where it flows into the Hudson, the site of the present city of Yonkers.* The next tribe were the Wickquaeskecks, or Wick(|uaesgecks, or Wickerschreecks, so called from their village of that name which De Vries, writing in 1640, thus describes, -- " Opposite Tappaen is a place called AVickquaesgeck. This land is also fit for corn, but too stony and sandy. We got there good masts. The

' Rut i nber, "8. II. Col. Hist. N. Y., 2nd Series, 5.

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land is mountainous." This " place " was the site of the present village of Dobbs Ferry. A few miles further up the Hudson was another town of the same tribe called Alipconck, or place of Elms, now Tarrytown. This tribe seems to have held the centre of the County from the lands of the Siwanoys on the east to the Hudson on the west. Adjoining them on the north were the Sint-sinks possessing two villages, Ossingsing now Sing-Sing, and Kestabuinck, the latter of which was inland and a little south of the Croton river.