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

and the Haunted Hollow, and the sachems of become household words in the neighbor Another tradition tells us that a desperate conflict was

district,

Teller's point, have

hood.

In one of the Phillipse Deeds,

it is

described as

"a

great rock called by the

Indians SiggAes."

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once held here by the Kitchawongs against their enemies, and that the mound near the entrance to Teller's point was erected over the dead who fell on that memorable occasion.

Anthony's nose was called Kittatenny, a Delaware term signi Poconteco river, called also Pekanteco or fying "endless hills." Peregbanduck, is presumed to express in its name the dark river ; from pohkunni, dark, inde. pecontecue^ night. The stream may have been densely overshadowed by trees. (O' Callaghan.) Bolton says the name signifies "a run between two hills." The Dutch styled it " Sleepy Haven kil," hence the origin of the Sacrabung^ present term Sleepy Hollow applied to the valley. or mill river, takes

its

name from sacra, rain.

Its liability to

freshets after heavy rains, may have given origin to the Indian name. (Ibid?) )uinnabung, a neck of land at the mouth and