accuracy the bounds of the original

It was a section of fine low land, situated

mainly on the west side of Shawangunk kil, for about five miles, from near the mouth of the Mary kil, to the mouth of the

Dwars kil.

Two miles to the west, and near the foot of the

mountain, was a flat called Welgbquatenbeuk, the place of wil lows ; and about two miles east, on the Wallkill, another fine region of

meadow and maize

Vol. i, part in, 229, etc., of Proceedings.

fields,

which they designated

APPENDIX.

Wanoksmk, or the place of sassafras. It was the main settlement of the Esopus tribe, on the east

seat of the

side of the

mountains, and had, on its southern border, the village, or castle, which was destroyed by the Dutch in September and October,

1663.

This, and nothing else, was the Shawangunk of the From thence the name began to spread, when the

red man.

it became was made to assume it, instead of

country was opened to European settlement, until widely used.

First, the kil

appropriate Acbsinink ; then the settlers along the kil for miles were said to have it for their home ; then the mountains or high

its

hills running from Rosendale to Minnisink, were thus designated ;

And here and finally the precinct and afterwards the township. let it be remarked that the name belongs in no sense whatever to the mountains now bearing it.

The Evans patent calls them

the high hills of Pitkiskakera.n& Aioskawosting.