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

remained as warriors.

Ferry ;

late

as

1663, and was then garrisoned by eighty village was on the site of Dobb's

Their principal

it is

shell beds.

said that its outlines can still be traced by numerous It

was

called

Weckquaskeck, and was located at

the mouth of Wicker's creek, which was called by the Indians

Wysquaqua.

Their second village was called Alipconck.

after our sterne ; in

recompense whereof

discharged six muskets, and killed two or three of them. Then above an hundred of them came to a point of land

we

There I shot a falcon at them, and killed two of them ; whereupon the rest fled into the woods. Yet to shoot at us.

they manned off another canoe with nine or ten men, which came to meet us.

So I shot a falcon, and shot it through, and

Its

one of them. Then our men with their muskets, killed three or four more of them. So they went their killed

way." Hudson's Journal. This name appears to be local, although there is some reason for regarding it