killed j a few were protected by the Eng

land sachem, and Ninigret, of the Narralish

gansetts. ish j the

The former is proud and fooland

latter

proud

Thompsons

Hist.

Long Island

Book of the

Indiana

fierce." '

Drake's

Lion Gardiner, in his Notes on East Hampton, relates, that the Block Island Indians, acting as the allies of the Narragansetts attacked

the

Montauks,

during

:

" The Montauk Indians were nearly all

pride of the barbarians, Ascassascotick, the Long Is-

The sachem and brought away. was taken and carried to Narragansett, he was made to walk on a large flat rock that was heated by building fires on it, and walked several times over it singing his death song, but his feet being burned to the bones, he fell and they finished the tragical scene as is usual for savages." N. f. Hist. Soc.-Coll. y 1849, 258.

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

of the burial ground of the chieftaincy, and here once stood the citadel of the monarch, II.

Wyandance.

The chieftaincies of the WAPPINGERS were The Reckgawawancs. 2 This chieftaincy has been gene :

1st.

the generic name of Manhattans^ and is so The site of their and other historians. Brodhead designated by is now occupied by that of Yonkers, and was principal village

known by

rally

Nappeckamak. This village, says Bolton, was situated On Berrien's at the mouth of the Neperah, or Saw Mill creek. the of north shore on the Neck, Spuyten Duyvel creek, was This fort was situated their castle or fort, called Nipinichsen.