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

" :

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

given as, "southerly to a creek or fall called by the Indians Weghquegsike," and in another deed the tract is described as

"a piece of land lying about Wighquaeskeek" and in still another Bolton says the creek was the creek is called Weghqueghe. called

Wysquaqua.

The Indian name for Tarrytown was Alipconck, " the place of Sing-Sing takes its name from an Indian village called " place of Ossing-sing, from ossin, a stone, and ing, a place, the

elms."

stones," or

" stone

upon stone."

Phillipse, 1685, it is said,

In a deed to Philip

(BoltonJ)

"a creek called Kitchawan, called by

Bolton, however, gives the name of Kitcbawonck to the Croton river. The site of the present vil

the Indians

Sinksink"

lage of Peekskill was called Sackhoes and was occupied by an Teller's point was called Indian village known by that name.

Tradition weaves the story that the forms of the Senasqua. ancient warriors still haunt the surrounding glens and woods of this