Van der Donck, who wrote thirty years later, places the Manhattans on the island, and above them Indian villages which he names Saeckkill, Wickquaskeck, Alipkonck, Sin-Sing, Kestaubuinck, Keskistkonck, Pasquuasheck, and Noch-Peem, south of and in the highlands. the south side of kill he

On

Wappinger's

locates three villages under the general name of Waoranecks, and |ibove them and occupying both sides of the river south of

the " Groote Esopus R.," he places the Wappingers. On the west side he locates the Neve-Sincks opposite Staten Island,

opposite Manhattan Island, Haverstroo ; below Verdrietigehoeck, the Tappans ; between Murderer's creek and the Dans-Kammer, the Waranwankongs '; then the

then the Raritans ;

Wappingers, and west of the Esopus, the general title of nessinck of te 1'Landt von Bacham."

" Min-

Were the question of location left to these writers and to the early maps, the inquiry might well be abandoned as hopeless.

Fortunately, however, Indian treaties and title deeds supply information which, though still imperfect, 2 enables a division of territory and location of subtribes to

be made with tolerable

From these sources the following classifications are

accuracy. mainly derived

:

The chieftaincies of the MONTAUKS were ist. The Carnarsees, who claimed the lands now included in

I.

the

:

county of Kings, and a part of the

Dans-Kammer point.

"There being no previous survey to the

grants, their boundaries are expressed with

much uncertainty, by the Indian names of brooks, rivulets, hills, ponds, falls of

water,

etc.,

town of Jamaica.