[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] [FN-1] December 1st, 1680, Frederick Phillips petitioned for liberty to purchase "a parcel of land on each side of the creek called by the Indians Pocanteco,... adjoining the land he hath already purchased; there to build and erect a saw-mill." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 546.) [FN-2] "Far in the foldings of the hills winds this wizard stream--sometimes silently and darkly through solemn woodlands.... In the neighborhood of the aqueduct is a deep ravine which forms the dreamy region of Sleepy Hollow." (Sketch Book.) Alipkonck is entered on Van der Donck's map of 1656, and located with the sign of an Indian village south of Sing Sing. Bolton (Hist. West. Co.) claimed it as the name of Tarrytown, and translated it, "The place of elms," which it certainly does not mean. Its derivative, however, is disguised in its orthography, and its locative is not certain. Conjecturally _Alipk_ is from _Wálagk_ (surd mutes _g_ and _p_ exchanged), "An open place, a hollow or excavation." The locative may have been Sleepy Hollow. _Tarrytown,_ which some writers have derived from _Tarwe_ (Dutch), "Wheat"--Wheat town--proves to be from an early settler whose name was _Terry,_ pronounced _Tarry,_ as written in early records. The Dutch name for Wheat town would be Tarwe-stadt, which was never written here. Oscawanna, an island so called, lying a short distance south of Cruger's Station on N. Y. Central R. R., Hudson River Division, is of record, in 1690, _Wuscawanus._ (Doc. Hist. N.