[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] have been inhabited by one of the numerous sea coast tribes termed SuwanoeSj or Sewanoos, by Jolm De Laet, one of tfie earliest historians of the New Netherlands, A.D. 1625.^ This people he describes " as dwelling along the coast from Norwalk to twenty-four miles to the neighborhood of Hellegat." Adriaen van der Donck, in his map of 1G56, styles them Siwanoys, These Siwanoys constituted a tribe of the mighty Mohegan na-tion, originally called Muhhekanew. or the Seven Tribes on the sea coast — otherwise called Mohiggans by the English, and Ma-hicanders, or River Indians by the Low Dutch> The River Sachems, at this early period, paid tribute to Sas-sacus, grand sachem of the Mohegans, whose broad territory ex-tended from Narragansett to Hudson Riv^er, and over all Long Is-land. In 1644, there was an Indian Chief by the name of Mam-aranack, living at Kitchawanc,<^ (Croton.) This individual may have been one of the grantors of these lands to the Dutch West India Company, in 1640, when the latter purchased a large tract of country extending as far east as Greenwich. The site of the ancient Indian village in this town can still be traced upon the projecting rocks, directly opposite the residence of Benjamin M. Brown, Esq. This spot was well suited to the habits of the aborigines, who subsisted one-half of the year at least upon the fish caught in these waters.