[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] paid reverence as an evidence of the permanency and immuta bility of their deity. * No Indian name more frequently occurs in the history of the county than that of Weckquaesgeek, nor one the precise location of which there is more difficulty in determining. O'Callaghan says: "This tract is described as extending from the Hudson to the East river. The name is from wigwos, birch bark, and keag, country — " the country of the birch bark." Bolton gives the name to an Indian village which occupied the site of Dobbs' ferry, which he denominates "the place of the bark kettle." In Albany Records, m, 379, is this entry : " Personally appeared Sauwenare, sachem of Wieckqueskeck, Amenameck his brother, and others, all owners, etc.^ of lands situated on North river called Wieckquaeskeck, and declared that they had sold the same to Wouter Van Twiller in 1645." In a deed to Frederick Phillipse, April 12, 1682, the bounds of the tract conveyed are given as, "southerly to a creek or fall called by the Indians Weghquegsike," and in another deed the tract is described as "a piece of land lying about Wighquaeskeek" and in still another the creek is called Weghqueghe. Bolton says the creek was called Wysquaqua.