A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 78
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] ces plantation, a name undoubtedly derived from one of its original proprietors. At the period of the Dutch discovery, this town formed a part of the Indian territory of Wikagyl, as laid down in the Dutch carte of 1614. «• The aboriginal name of the town itself was Weckquaskeck; afterwards varied to Wechquossqueeck and Wiequoeshook; in pure Algonquin, Weec-quoes-guck, the place of the bark kettle. b Opposite Tappaan, (says Be Yries, in 1640.) lies a place called Wichquaesqueeck. Van Tienhoven describing tlie same spot" remarks : '• Wicli-quaesqueek, on the North River, five (twenty) miles above New Amsterdam, is a right good and suitable land for cultivation, con-tains considerable maize land which the Indians planted, rising from, the shore. In the interior the country is flat and mostly even, very abundantly watered with small streams and runniuo"