Wawayanda tract, whose wigwam stood beside the spring from which the stream

flows.

A modern tradition associates the

name of Wawastawa, another of the grantors of the tract, with the stream, through his daughter, to whom a Frenchman named The maiden rejected his suit and fled toBoltez made love.

HUDSON RIPER INDIANS.

wards her

father's cabin.

Just then her father's shrill whistle

was heard, and she paused in her flight and exclaimed, " Run, " an exclamation which, when the story came out, Bolt, Run !

was applied to the streamlet. On Sugar Loaf mountain, in Chester, was an Indian village and burial ground some time advent of the whites. It is said that the chieftaincy Mislocated here paid tribute to the Senecas as late as 1756. a tucky, locality in Warwick, is probably an abbreviation of

after the

Miskotucky, a compound word implying red hills or red plains. Pochuck, a name applied to one of the streams of that town as well as to the district known as Florida, seems to retain the root

term for bog or muddy land. Jogee Hill, in the town of Minisink, takes its name from and preserves the place of residence of Keghgekapowell alias Joghem. one of the grantors of lands to Governor Dongan in 1684.

considerable canton is said to have resided in the vicinity at an early period, and that

Jogbem remained an occupant of this hill had departed for the west. Arrowheads and small images of various kinds have been found here, and among other articles an Indian tomahawk the whole of which long after his brethren