260 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Capt. Mason and his force against the ill-fated Pequot Fort Mystic, 6th 

 June, 1637. 



Eighteen years later Oratam, chief of Hackinkiskacky, summoned the 

 chiefs of Weckquaskeck before the Council. Upon the death of Mon- 

 gockonone, (who doubtless fell in one of those Indian wars so frequent 

 in that stormy period,) Poumpahowhelbsheln appears to have inherited 

 the chieftainship. This individual sanctioned the sale of lands called 

 Ubiequaeshook, to Petrus Stuyvesant, A.D. 1649." 



The chief of Weckquaskeck in the year 1660, was Ackhongh, who is 

 called the chief and counsellor of Weckquaskeck. 



In 1663 we have the names of Toawenare, sachem of the same place, 

 and Souwenaro his brother. Also the same year occurs the name of • 

 Schowmenarack. In 1680 the chiefs were Weskora, or Weskomen, and 

 Goharius his brother. And one year later Wessickenaiuw, sachem of 

 Weckquaskeck, and Conarhanded his brother. 



The descendants of the aboriginal proprietors appear to have been 

 very numerous in this town, AD. 1731, nearly half a century after their 

 last sale to Frederick Philips. 



In 1746 there were two Indian villages situated in the vicinity of 

 Hart's corners; one stood on the farm of Mr. James McChain, whilst 

 the second crowned the summit of Indian Hill, the property of Mr. 

 John Tompkins. 



Even as late as 1755 the banks of the Hudson were thickly populated 

 by the Indians, particularly south of Tarrytown in the vicinity of Mr. 

 James Ackers. 



The cruel murder of an aged warrior of this town, Sept., A. D. 1627, 

 plunged the Dutch colony into a long series of wars. It appears that 

 "one of the neighboring tribe of Wickwasqueeck Indians had come, 

 with his nephew and another of his nation, to the Dutch fort to sell some 

 beaver skins. He was met, unfortunately, by three of Minuit's farm ser- 

 vants, who not only rifled the Indian of his property but murdered him 

 in cold blood. 



The nephew of the unfortunate man, who was then a mere youth, 

 was a witness to this outrage. He returned home brooding over 

 the wrong, and vowed to take vengence when he should arrive at 

 the years of manhood; a vow he too faithfully fulfilled years afterwards, 

 the Dutch having neglected to expiate the crime by a suitable present 



a Pennekeck, sachem in Achtercol, stated on the 16th of July, 1649, (before the Director 

 and Council,) that the tribe named Raritans, residing before at Wecquaskeck, had no sachem, 

 &C. Alb. Rec. vol. vii, 252. 



