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The name of this town denotes its pleasant location upon high hills; 

 Mount Pleasant has been separated from the old town of the same name, 

 and erected into a distinct township ; a both having been formally in- 

 cluded in the Manor of Philipsburgh. It is situated six miles north-west 

 of the village of White Plains, distant thirty-three miles from New York, 

 and one hundred and nineteen from Albany ; bounded north by Ossin- 

 ing and New Castle, and east by North Castle, south by Greenburgh, 

 and west by Ossining and the Hudson River. 



This tract of land must originally have formed a portion of the an- 

 cient domains of Weckguaskeck, as we find Weskora, Sachem of that 

 place, and Ghoharius, his brother, (a chief residing here,) conjointly 

 selling lands bordering the Pocanteco to Frederick Philipse, in the year 

 1680. 



Upon the district situated near the mouth of the Pocanteco River, 

 (called by the English, Mill River,) the Indians conferred the name of 

 Pockerhoe. Pocanteco, the Indian name for the beautiful Mill River, , 

 is clearly derived from the Algonguin, Pockohantes,^ a term expressive 

 of " a run between two hills." The local term Pockerhoe, also points 

 to the same root for its origin. 



Be this as it may, however, no signification could be more descriptive 

 of the Weird stream, which pours its swift current through the foldings 

 of a hundred hills. The Dutch styled it, the Sleepy haven Kill,* hence 

 the origin of the present term Sleepy Hollow, as applied to the valley. 



a Mount Pleasent was originally organized on the 7th of March, 1T88. Rec. Stat. The 

 present town on the 20th of May, 1845. 

 i The Indian name of the illustrious princess of Virginia. 

 c Van der Donck's, H. N. N. 



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