the starting point for the line which divided the counties of

and

Ulster.

That

its

ijame was derived

Orange

from some unex-

HUDSON RIPER INDUNS.

plained

event

or

on the

hostile action

part of the Waoranecks appears to be conclusively established from the fact that it was applied to it only until it reached the castle of that chieftaincy on the north spur of Schunemunk mountain, about seven miles from its mouth. Tradition affirms in explanation, that

at

an early

period

company of

a

traders

entered

the

creek with their sloop and were enticed on shore, where they

were murdered on a

hill

still

memoration of the event ; and

known

as

by the fact that the name of the hill

is

hill

com

in

is strengthened coexistent with that of

the creek. It is here that Paulding locates of Naoman, so generally accepted as history

" Little more than a

Sloop

this explanation

his

beautiful story

:

century ago, the beautiful region watered

by this stream was possessed by a small tribe of Indians, which has long since become extinct, or incorporated with some other Three or four hundred yards from savage nation of the west. where the stream discharges itself in the Hudson, a white family,

of the name of Stacy, had established itself in a log house, by tacit

permission of the tribe, to

whom Stacy had made himself

useful by a variety of little arts, highly estimated by the savages.

In particular, a friendship existed between him and an old Indian, called