[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] name of Wayaughtanock." In the pro-2 The name is local, and is applied, in ceedings of a convention held at Albany a petition by William Caldwell and others in 1689, the name is applied to the in 1702, to a " tract of unappropriated Indians who are called the Wawyachteioks lands in ye hands of ye Indians, lying or Wawijachtenocks. in Dutchess county to ye westward of 3Mapof Rensselaerswyck,0'CW/<2g-fo»'s Westenholks creek, and to ye eastward NCIU Netherlfind • Wassenaar, Document-of Poghkeepsie, called by ye Indians by ye ary History, in, 43. 86 THE INDIAN TRIBES or near Schodac was Aepjtn's castle.1 Nine miles east of Claverack was one of the castles of the Wiekagjocks, and on Van der Donck's map two of their villages, without name, are located inland north of RoelofF Jansen's kill. Potik and Beeren island 2 were for many years in the possession of the Wechken-towoons. The villages of the Wawyachtonocks are without designation, but it is probable that Shekomeko,3 about two miles south of the village of Pine Plains, in Dutchess county, was classed as one of them, as well as that of Wechquadnach or Wukhquautenauk, described as " twenty-eight miles below Stockbridge." Kaunaumeek, where the missionary, Brainerd,