western parts of Dutchess and Columbia counties, and 5. The At the Westenhucks, who held the capital of the confederacy. time of the discovery those embraced in the first subdivision had a castle on what is now known as Haver island, called by

them Cohoes, on the west side of the river, just below Cohoes falls, under the name of Monemius' castle, and another on the east bank and south of the first, called Unuwat's castle. 3 At

Johnson Manuscript, iv, 54.

The name is local, and is applied, in

a petition by William Caldwell and others

"

tract of unappropriated 1702, to a lands in ye hands of ye Indians, lying

in

county to ye westward of Westenholks creek, and to ye eastward of Poghkeepsie, called by ye Indians by ye

in

Dutchess

name of Wayaughtanock."

In the proceedings of a convention held at Albany in 1689, the name is applied to the Indians who are called the Wawyachteioks or Wawijachtenocks.

Mapof Rensselaerswyck,0'CW/<2g-fo's

NCIU Netherlfind ary History, in, 43.

Wassenaar, Document-

THE INDIAN TRIBES

near Schodac

or

was Aepjtn's

castle.

Nine

miles

east

of

Claverack was one of the castles of the Wiekagjocks, and on Van der Donck's map two of their villages, without name, are located inland north of RoelofF Jansen's kill. island

towoons.

were for many years

The

villages

Potik and Beeren

Wechkenin the possession of the

of the

Wawyachtonocks

are

without

designation, but it is probable that Shekomeko, about two miles

south of the village of Pine Plains, in Dutchess county, was classed as one of them, as well as that of Wechquadnach or