Three or four miles north is W anion Island, the site of a traditionary battle between the Mohawks and the Katskill Indians. It is now the northeast boundmark of Ulster County. Neither of these islands could have been the boundmark of the lands granted by the Indians. Wanton seems to be from IVanquon (IVankon, Del.), "Heel" -- resembling a human heel in shape -- pertuberant. The letter t in the name is simply an exchange of the surd mutes k and /. Modern changes have destroyed the original appearance of the island.

Hudson's river on the west. 163

spoken of without name in connection with a district of country admitted by the Indians to have been "conquered by the sword," inchiding the "two captured forts." In the subsequent treaty (1665) with Governor Nicolls the ceded district is described as "A certain parcel of land lying and being to the west or southwest of a certain creek or river called by the name of Kaihanksen, and so up to the head thereof where the Old Fort was ; and so with a direct line from thence through the woods and crosse the meadows to the Great Hill lying to the west or southwest, which Great Hill is to be the true west or southwest bounds, and the said creek called Kaihanksen the north or northeast bounds of the said lands." In a treaty deed with Governor Andros twelve years later (April ly, 1677), the boundary lines "as they were to he thereafter," are described : "Beginning at the Rondouyt Kill, thence to a kill called Kabanksnix, thence north along the hills to a kill called Maggowasinghingh, thence to the Second Fall, easterly to Freudyachkamick on the Groot River, south to Rondouyt Kill." In other words the district conceded to have been "conquered by the sword" lay between the Esopus and the Rondout on the Hudson, and extended west to the stream called Kahanksen, thence north to a stream called Maggowasinghingh, thence north, etc.