[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] not on Manhattan Island, but, as appears by the statements of the Long Island Indians, this care and protection was in the territory and on the island of the latter. Under this explanation there is no contradiction in the statements of Hudson, De Laet and other writers, as compared with the Albany Records, that the name Manhattan, is *' from or after the tribe of savages among whom the Dutch made their first settlement; " nor with that contained in a paper describing New Netherland (Documentary History, iv, 115): "So called from the people which inhabited the main land on the east side of the river." * History of Westchester County. 5 " Whereupon two canoes full of men, with their bowes and arrowes shot at us 78 THE INDI4N TRIBES it was also at this point that he first dropped anchor on his as cending vpyage. They held occupation of Manhattan island and had there villages which were occupied while on hunting and fishing excursions. In Breeden Raedt their name is given as the Reckewackes, and in the treaty of 1643, it is said that Oritany, sachem of the Hackinsacks, " declared he was dele gated by and for those of Tappaen, Reckgawawanc, Kickta-wanc, and Sintsinck." The tract occupied by the Reckgawawancs on the main land was called Kekesick, and is described as " lying over against the flats of the island of Manhates." It extended north includ ing the site of the present village of Yonkers, and east to the Broncks river.