[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] name by which they were last designated was that of the creek now called " Murderer's; " their first name disappears from the early records almost simultaneously with the appearance of the latter,1 and with the general classification of " Eso-pus Indians," while the territory assigned to them had no other known occupants, rich though it was in all the ele ments of favorite hunting grounds. The Waoranecks parti cipated in the Esopus wars, if not in the wars at Fort Am sterdam, and at the Dans-kammer celebrated those frightful orgies called kinte-kay-ing, regarded by the Dutch as devil worship. Their relations with the Esopus Indians 2 were such that there can be no hazard in classing them as one of the "five tribes," so called, of the Eso pus country. Their sachem in 1685, was Werekepes, or Were-pekes, and Moringa-maghan3 and Awesse-wa principal chiefs. 2d. The WarranawonkongsS This was the most numerous of the Esopus chieftaincies. Their territory extended from the house where John McLean now (1756), dwells, near the said kill." He subse quently removed to what is called a " wigwam," which stood " on the north bank of Murderer's creek, where Col. Matthews lives." The location is in Hamptonburgh, on the point of land formed by the junction of the Otter kill and the Grey Court creek, by which Murderer's creek is formed, and which takes its name at that point, as though some dark memory was associated with the name of its owner.