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7 A recent grave was found a mile north of Wolcott in 1894 

 on the Thacker farm. 



8 A stone mortar was dug up near the custodial asylum in 

 Newark. 



Westchester county. This county was well stocked with Al- 

 gonquin tribes, and these and the sites have been . quite fully re- 

 ported in Bolton's History of Westchester from which most of these 

 notes are taken. 



1 An old fort and village were near Annsville in Cortlandt. — 

 Bolton, I 158. Sachus or Sackhoes was a village at Peekskill. — 

 Bolton, 1:84 



2 The Kitchawanks were near the Croton and north to the High- 

 lands. In Cortlandt at the entrance of the neck proper was the 

 castle of Kitchawan. — Bolton, i :84. This was on Senasqua neck, 

 now called Croton point. The castle was west of the Van Cort- 

 landt cemetery and a burial place used in 1641 was east. — Bolton, 



1 :i96. In August 1899, Mr Harrington, of the Museum of natural 

 history, New York, discovered the earthwork at Croton point. It 

 is low but well defined. He found four skeletons, but no relics of 

 value. 



3 Early relics and skeletons have been found on Oscawana island 

 and on the neighboring shores. — Bolton, 1:180 



4 The principal village in Yorktown was on Indian hill, 600 

 feet above the north bank of Lake Magrigaries now Mohegan 

 lake, on the east side of the hill. — Bolton, 2:661. The cemetery was 

 on the south side and on the east side of the town was the Indian 

 cemetery of Amawalk. — Bolton, 2 :662 



5 There was a village on Crane's lake or on the rocky ridge of 

 Croton river in Somers, with lodges on most streams and high 

 grounds. Some were on the east side of Angle Fly brook. — Bolton, 



2 :252 



6 A cemetery at Wood's bridge at the junction of Plum brook 

 and Croton river in this town. — Bolton, 2:252 



7 Cemetery on the road from Boutonville to Bedford beyond 

 Wepuc stream. — Bolton, i :396 



8 Another west of the bridge between South Salem and Cross 

 river. — Bolton, 1:396 



