Haverstraw, but his authorities are not at For example, it is said that an all clear. offending member of the Hackinsacks, " had gone two days' journey off among the Tankitekes 5 "Pacham, the subtle chief of the Tankitekes near HaverHaverstraw was not two days' straw." His journey from Hackinsack, certainly. location is also defeated in the person and history of

viously

Pacham, whose name he pregives

to

a

chieftaincy in

the

O'Callaghan locates them highlands. on the east side of Tappan bay, and Bolton in the eastern part of Westchester

from the deeds which they gave to their lands.

The latter is clearly correct.

a Wassenaar locates here the Pachany j and Brodhead, on authorities which appear to him sufficient, follows him under the name of Pachimis. In Breeden Raedt they are called Hogelanders, while in the treaty of 1644 ( 0' Callaghan, i,

302), they are called Nochpeems, a title which corresponds with the name of one of their villages on Van der Donck's It is not impossible that the Tankitekes extended into the highlands on the east, and that their chief Pacham held sway there, and hence the name j but the treaty record of 1 644 appears to

map.

It be a sufficient answer to this theory. certainly safe to designate them by a

is

title by

which they were officially known.

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

the town of Putnam Valley, and was included in the deeds for

The remainder of their lands passed

the manor of Cortlandt.