to another

west side of the river, there is a point of land that juts out covered with sand, opposite a bend in the river, on which another nation of savages, the Waorantch, DeLaet. have their abode."

At Fisher's hook are Packany, Warenockcr,

Warraiuannankonckx.

Documen-

" Murderer's

and the subsequent signatures classed as " inferior owners." Thus in the Haverstraw

purchase, Sa'ckagkemeck appears sachem or principal, and Werepekes " In the inferior owner." as an

as

Dongan

purchase, Werepekes

signed as sachem,

In and Sackagkemeck as an inferior. the Cheesecock and Ashhurst deeds

Moringamaghan,

or

Moringamack,

is

cates

the principal, while in the Dongan deed he appears in a subordinate position, These overlapping boundaries entered very

principal owners, are generally so stated,

largely into consideration in fixing the limits of the Dongan purchase.

tary History, in, 28.

The duplication of signatures indiwhat may be called overlapping The grantors, who were boundaries.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

kill

Indians" of 1685, were the Waoranecks of 1625.

name by which they were last designated was that of the creek now called " Murderer's " their first name from

; disappears the early records almost simultaneously with the appearance of the latter, 1 and with the general classification of " Esopus Indians," while the territory assigned to them had no

other known occupants, rich though it was in all the ele ments of favorite hunting grounds. The Waoranecks parti cipated in the Esopus wars, if not in the wars at Fort Am sterdam, and at the Dans-kammer celebrated those frightful orgies called kinte-kaying,