obtained " five great flats or plains" called Wachacbkeek, Wichquanachtekok, Pachquyak, Assiskowacbkok, and Pot'ick ; a tract sold to Jacob Lockerman was bounded on the south by a creek called

Canasenix,

" east on the river in the Great Imbocht where

Loveridge leaves off, called by the Indians Peoquanackqua, and west by a place called by the Indians htackanock ; " and Henry Beekman had a tract " under the great mountains called Blue

by a place called Kiskatameck"

hills,

The Mabican village

known as Potick, was apparently located west of Athens, where the name is preserved in Potick hill and Potick creek, the latter It forming the west line of the town. may be added that the term Katskil was applied by the Dutch as descriptive of the

totemic emblem of the Indians, a wolf.

Wanton island, a short distance north of Katskill landing, is

the

site

of a traditionary battle between the Mahicans and Like other traditions which are woven into

the Mohawks.

history, the issue involved in the conflict is a pure fiction. The tradition is related by Stone, in his Life of Brant, as

follows

"

:

Brown,

tradition

in

his

History

of

in regard to the kings

have found no other mention.

Schobarie,

gives

a

singular

of the Mohawks, of which I The Mohawks and River In

dians were once bitter enemies, the former becoming the terror

Brown states that the last battle and scourge of the latter. between the Mahicans and Mohawks took place on Wanton The ques island, in the Hudson river, not far from Katskil. tion between them was, which should have the honor of nam