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

" Wukhquautenauk, described as twenty-eight miles below where the missionary, Brainerd, Kaunaumeek, Stockbridge." and which he describes as " near miles from

labored, twenty Stockbridge, and near about twenty miles distant from Albany " eastward ; 4 Potatik, located by the Moravians on the Housatonic " seventy miles inland," and Westenhuck or Wnahktakook, the capital of the confederacy, were villages of the Wes-

tenbucks, subsequently known as the Stockbridges.

That their

villages and chieftaincies were even more numerous than those of

the Montauks and Wappingers there is every reason to suppose, but

causes the very opposite of those which led to the preservation

of the location of the latter, permitted the former to go down with so many unrecorded facts relating to the tribe, as well as to their neighbors, the Mohawks, whose four castles only appear on

record instead of seven

& affirmed by the Jesuit missionaries.

But these subdivisions are of no practical importance. In action they were as unknown as the merest hamlet in