2 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



this treaty might be plotting mischief against the Christians, then they 

 will give to them timely warning, and not admit such a nation within 

 their own limits. To secure and confirm this peace, presents were 

 given on both sides, while God is prayed that this peace may be duly 

 observed by the savages. a 



30 August, 1645. Aepjen, chief sachem of the Mohegans personally 

 appeared at Fort Amsterdam, as a delegate to the general council held 

 there, in behalf of the Wappinecks, the Weckquaesqueecks, the Sint 

 Sings and the Kicktawancks. b 



In the year A. D., 1663, the Sint Sings appear to have been without 

 a chief. ° 



Between the Indian village of Sin-sing and the Kitchawanck, (Croton,) 

 the early Dutch maps place another Indian settlement, called in Van 

 der Donck's map of 1656, Kestaubuiuck ; in that of Nicholaus Johannes 

 Visschers, 1659, Kestauboiuck. d 



" Along the East shores of the Tappan, says Mr. Schoolcraft, is the 

 village of Kastoniuck, (a term still surviving in the opposite village of 

 Niuck or Nyack.) The name of Nyack does not occur, continues the 

 same authority, in records of the earliest period for the position of the 

 present town. The word is found in an opposite Indian village of 

 Kastoniuck. e 



The first grantee, under the Indians of Ossin-ing, was Frederick 

 Phillipse to whom on the 24th of August, 1685, they released " all of that 

 tract or parcel of land situate, lying, and being by the northermost part 

 of the land late purchased by Frederick Phillipse, and so running 

 alongst Hudson's river to the creek or river called Ketchawan, and 

 called by the Indians Sint Sinck, with the use of half the said creek, 

 and from thence running up the country upon a due east line until it 

 comes to a creek called Niperan, by the Christians, Yoncker's creek, 

 and so running alongst the said creek till it comes to the northerly 

 bounds of the said land of Mr. Frederick Phillipse, and from thence 

 alongst the said land till it comes to Hudson's river, together with, &c, 

 &c. The grantors were 



Weskexaxe, Crawmax, Wappus, 



Keaxarham, Weuxicktanon, Aquaines, 



Mamaxxaxe, Weremenhore. 



a All). Rec. 11. 220. 



allaghan's Hist. x. x. p. 33c. 



c Alb. 1 :•■(•. xxi. 247. 



map attachment to the new series of tho x. Y. nist. Soc. vol. i.; also Dutch map, 

 printed by Thomas Btarllng, Wilniiugton Square, London, from the original in the possession 

 of S. Converse, publisher, X. Y. 



e Proceedings of X. Y. Hist. Soc. 1844. 



