[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Hebby Brown, Sealer of weights and measures. Andrew Vincent, Constable. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 361 NEWCASTLE. This township is situated ten miles north of the village of White Plains, and distant one hundred and twenty-one miles from Albany; bounded north by Cortlandt, Yorktown and So-mers, east by Bedford, south by North Castle, and west by Os-sin-in^r and Mount Pleasant. New Castle was taken from the older town of North Castle, and set off as a separate or distinct township, on the 18th of March, 1791. By the Indians it was called Shappequa, probably a corruption of the Algonquin term, Chapacoiir, which signifies "a vegetable root.''^ The name still survives in the Shappequa hills. The chief proprietor of these lands in 1696 was the Indian sachem Wampus, whose principal residence is said to have been situated near the pond of that name, in the south-west part of the town. On the south side of Kirby's pond, (at New Castle corner,) the Indians had their wig-wams and a burying ground. Their tools are occasionally found ill the adjoining fidds..b v.;■. '., In 1660 John Richbell, of Mamaroneck; purchased of the In-dians, (who claimed to be lords of the soil,) a large tract of land extending twenty miles north of the Sound. This grant com-prised the entire township of New Castle. The next proprietor was Colonel Caleb Heathcote who obtain-