It is always been reckoned so." entirely possible that the tribal name was Wequehachke, or Wickeskeck, or and tkat Wappingcrs is

PPeckquaesgeek,

local. In all however, and in the recognition of Nimham, they were

their official

relations,

known as the Wappingers.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

on the north to Manhattan island on the south. What their family clans were on the north is not known, nor where their

On Van der Donck's map three of their villages or

capital.

castles are located

on the south side of the Mawenawasigh, 01

Great Wappinger's kill, which

now bears their name.

North

of that stream they appear to have been known as the Indians of the Long Reach, and on the south as the Highland In dians.

Among their

chiefs

Goethals

and Tseessaghgaw are

named, while of their sachems the names of Megriesken and Nimham 1 alone survive. Of their possessions on the Hudson there is but one perfect transfer title on record, that being for the lands which were included in the Rombout patent, in which

u

Sackeraghkigh, for himself and in the

name of Megriesken,

sachem of the Wappinger Indians," and other Indians therein named as grantors, conveyed the tract beginning on the south side of the Matteawan creek and running along the Hudson north to a point five hundred rods beyond " the Great Wapping's kill,

five

by the Indians Mawenawasigh," thence east, keeping hundred rods north of said creek, " four hours' going into

called

the woods," thence south to the south side of Matteawan creek,