" Whereupon two canoes full of men, with their bowes and arrowes shot at us

THE INDI4N TRIBES

it

was also at this point that he

first

dropped anchor on his as

They held occupation of Manhattan island cending vpyage. and had there villages which were occupied while on hunting and fishing excursions. In Breeden Raedt their name is given as the Reckewackes, and in the treaty of 1643, it is said that " declared he was dele Oritany, sachem of the Hackinsacks,

gated by and for those of Tappaen, wanc, and Sintsinck."

Reckgawawanc, Kickta-

The tract

occupied by the Reckgawawancs on the main land " Kekesick, and is described as lying over against the flats of the island of Manhates." It extended north includ

was

called

ing the

site

of the present village of Yonkers, and east to the

Broncks river.

Their chiefs were Rechgawac, after whom they

called, Fecquesmeck, and Peckauniens. sachem known to the Dutch, was Tackarew, in In 1682, the names of Goharis, Teattanqueer and

appear to have been

Their 1639.

first

Wearaquaeghier appear as the grantors of lands to Frederick Tackarew's descendants are said to have been resi Phillipse. The last point occupied by dents of Yonkers as late as 1701. the chieftaincy was Wild Boar hill, to which place its members

had gathered together as the Europeans encroached upon them.

Traces of two burial grounds have been discovered on their lands.

is

As early as 1644, this chieftaincy ad. The Weckquaesgeeks? known to have had three entrenched castles, 2 one of which