History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 40 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their chiefs were Rechgawac, after whom they appear to have been called, Fecquesmeck, and Peckauniens. Their first sachem known to the Dutch, was Tackarew, in 1639. In 1682, the names of Goharis, Teattanqueer and Wearaquaeghier appear as the grantors of lands to Frederick Phillipse. Tackarew's descendants are said to have been resi dents of Yonkers as late as 1701. The last point occupied by the chieftaincy was Wild Boar hill, to which place its members had gathered together as the Europeans encroached upon them. Traces of two burial grounds have been discovered on their lands. ad. The Weckquaesgeeks? As early as 1644, this chieftaincy is known to have had three entrenched castles,2 one of which remained as late as 1663, and was then garrisoned by eighty