A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 5
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. « " 17 The Beaver Dam or Stony brook was styled in the Indian tongue Pockeotessen. The former existence of Indian habita-tions on the great neck of Poningoe is amply proved by the number of hunting and warlike weapons found in that neighbor-hood. The site of the principal Mohegan village was on or near Parsonage Point. In the same vicinity is situated ^^ Buryiiig Hill,^^ their place of sepulture. The remains of six Indians were discovered on excavating the present foundations for Newberry Halstead's residence, which stands near the entrance of the great neck. The first grantees under the Indians of Poningoe, were the Dutch West India Company, who obtained a grant of the lands extending from Westchester to Greenwich, A. D. 1640.