Another stream, called the Little Pakadasank has similar source and outlet. There is reason for supposing that the Indian vil took their name, was in the lage, from which both streams Bancroft present town c f Crawford, Orange county.

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One of the boundaries of the Paltz patent, now known as Paltz point, was called and known by the Indians, Maggrnapogh.

u These are to In the Ulster records is this certificate certify that the inhabitants of the towns of New Paltz, being desirous :

that the first station of their patent named

Moggonck might be Joseph Horsbrook, John Hardenburgh, Roeleft Eltinge, Esq., justices of the Peace for the county of Ulster, to accompany them, and there being kept in

remembrance, did

desire us,

Ancrop, the Indian, then brought us to the High Mountain which he named Maggrnapogh, at or near the foot of which hill is a small run of water and a swamp which he called Moggonck, said Indian Ancrop affirms it to be, the right Indian names of the said places as witness our hands this nineteenth Ancrop was at that time sachem of day of December, 1722."

and the

the Esopus Indians.

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

Schoolcraft has preserved a pictographic inscription on the " which, from its antiquity and character appears Esopus rocks,

denote the era of the introduction of fire-arms and gun powder among the tribes inhabiting that section of the valley of

to

He says

the Hudson." z

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" The location of the inscription is on the western bank of the Hudson, at Esopus landing. Other indications have been of these ancient Indians the skill at of reported, sundry times,