[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Uavidt Piettersen ue Vries, ) In presence of me Cornelis van Tienhoven, Sec'y." How long the Dutch West india Company held the lands of Kekeshick, does not appear; but about the year A. D. 1646, we find the Indian sachem Tackareiv, granting lands in this town to Adriaen van der Donck> In this sale the town is called Nep-perhaem,<^ an Indian name frequently applied to the village. Eighty years later we find it varied to Nepperah^'^ the proper Indian orthography of which is evidently Nap-pe-c/ia-mak, ren-dered literally the ^-rapid waiter settlement^ 4'hus graphically expressing the situation of the Mohegan village, at the mouth of the Neperah, or rapid waters. e In the deep seclusion of the an-cient forests that once bordered this beautiful stream, were loca-ted other Indian villages, some of the sites of which tradition has preserved to us; one of these occupied the eastern edge of Boar Hill. A Mohegan castle ornamented the steep side ot Berrian's Neck, styled in the Indian tongue Nipnichsen. It was carefully