Entering the Hudson south of Newburgh is ^uassaick creek. The name is from qussuk, a stone, and the signification stony

Newburgh and partly in New Windsor is what is called Muchattoes Hill, a name apparently derived from brook.

Partly in

Muhk, red; at, near

or by, and

os,

small

a

small red

hill

near the river.

North of Newburgh the rocky peninsula known as DansKammer point is a feature in the landscape as well as in the history of the river.

It

was at this place that the Indians held

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their worship of the devil, on one occasion four or five hundred

There were two here engaged in that service. the and other on dances which orgies were held, grassy plots the one called the large Dans-Kammer, and the other the seen

being

The first is now occupied by the Arm house the second was on the rocky point which re ; strong

little

Dans-Kammer.

tains the name.

" Hans

The place has its story as

well as its history.

" was the son of Hansen," the story says, Jacobus Hansen, one of the first settlers in the vinicity of Albany, and,'

except an occasional skirmish with the Indians, had enjoyed undisturbed peace and honor in the small circle that constituted

He had now arrived at such an age that the of his farm were too fatiguing for his declining years ; and Hans being the eldest son, the superintendency necessarily his settlement.

affairs

devolved on him ; but so important a station could not be pro a vrouw. Hans accordingly perly filled without the assistance of looked among the fair of his acquaintances, and, with the con sent of his parents, paid his addresses to Miss Katrina Van