O'Callaghan " on the north end of the island gives the same name to a tract of Manhattans," about 228th street, between Spuyten Duyvel creek on the west and Harlem river on the east. Saw mill creek was called Neperah, from nepe, water, and gave its name to the Indian village of Nappeckamak, which stood on the site of the present village of Yonkers, literally "the rapid water In an obscure nook on the Hudson, west of the settlement." Neperah, is a large rock which was called Meghkeekassin, or

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

Amackassin* ox "the great stone," to which it is said the Indians paid reverence as an evidence of the permanency and immuta bility

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of their deity.

No Indian name more frequently occurs in the history of the county than that of Weckquaesgeek, nor one the precise location of which there is more difficulty in determining.

O'Callaghan

says: "This tract is described as extending from the Hudson to the East river. The name is from wigwos, birch bark, and

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Bolton gives the country of the birch bark." keag, country the name to an Indian village which occupied the site of Dobbs' ferry, which he denominates "the place of the bark kettle."

Albany Records,

m, 379, is this entry

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In

Personally appeared

Sauwenare, sachem of Wieckqueskeck, Amenameck his brother, and others, all owners, etc.^ of lands situated on North river called Wieckquaeskeck, and declared that they had sold the same In a deed to Frederick to Wouter Van Twiller in 1645." Phillipse, April 12, 1682, the bounds of the tract conveyed are