History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River
of the Siwanoys, embraces the tract of land now included in the towns of Rye and Harrison. Rye Neck was called Apaw-
The town of Morisania was known as Ranachque or The towns of New Castle and Bedford occupy a Raraque. tract called Shappeqlia, a name now applied to the Shappequa quammis.
hills,
and destined to be remembered from its recent association
with
trte
adjoining
name of Mr. Horace Greeley.
The west neck The Byram
New Rochelle was called Magopson.
river was known
by the name of Armonck, and the meadowy
Harlem river was called bordering it Haseco and Miosekassaky. Muscoota; Blind brook, Mockquams, and the high ridge east of Enketaupuenson ; Beaver
it,
dam
or Stony Brook, Pockestersen,
and Delancey's neck, Waumainuck.
A tract called Rippowams
The name is applied to the entire range both in New Jersey and New York.
HUDSON RWER INDIANS.
to the share of the people of Stamford, Conn., in 1655. extended eighteen miles north and south, and eight miles east and west.
fell
It
In the town of Carmel, in the county of Putnam, is located Lake Macookpack, now Mahopack^ a term probably signifying simply a large inland lake, from
The same name was
ma large water and aki land. what is now known as The lake is nine miles in cir
to
applied
Copake lake in Columbia county.
cumference, and is situated about eighteen hundred feet above On one of the islands of the lake is what
the level of the sea. the