Either by reason of the delay in recruiting or the week's preaching, or some other misfortune not mentioned in the documents of that date, th e troops took the field too late, and were unable to repel au attack made by the Weckquaesgeeks, who, at Pelham Neck, or, as it was then known, Aiinie's Hoeck, murdered the celebrated refugee Ann Hutchinson, and destroyed houses and cattle. Thence they went to " Vreedelandt," where such of the Throckmorton or Cornell families as were at home were murdered and the barns and houses burned. A boat landing there about that time, some of the women and children fled on board, but eighteen persons were massacred.

This raid seems to have extended a considerable distance. Westchester was laid waste and Long Island was almost cleaned out of inhabitants and f<tock. The eight men of New Amsterdam wrote a pitiful tale to the 5Iost Worshipful Directors of the West India Company, saying: " Famine stares us in the face. Not a plough can be put in the ground. This is but the beginning of our troubles." '

The southwest part of Throgg's Neck, or Pilot's Point, and the old Ferris place, as now known, in the l^ossession of the Ferrises, Mr. Zenega, Jacob Lorillard and others, was granted to Thomas Hunt about 1686.* Farther west were Willett's and Cornell's Necks, called Black Rock. This latter extended westerly to the Bronx, but did not include that part of the township which formed the borough. In 1663 that portion of the original town west of the Bronx, including the present village of West Farms, Hunt's Point and as far west as Leggetts Creek, vested by purchase from the Indians in Edward Jessup and John Richardson. Bronx's land evidently lay between Bungay and Cromwell's Creeks. Devoe's Point, or Daniel Turneur's land, now forming the point between Cromwell's Creek and Harlem River south of High Bridge, purchased originally in 1671 by Turneur from the Indians, and Archer's patent, also an Indian purchase, formed the northwest corner of the territory.