[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Indian name for Tarrytown was Alipconck, " the place of elms." Sing-Sing takes its name from an Indian village called Ossing-sing, from ossin, a stone, and ing, a place, the " place of stones," or " stone upon stone." (BoltonJ) In a deed to Philip Phillipse, 1685, it is said, "a creek called Kitchawan, called by the Indians Sinksink" Bolton, however, gives the name of Kitcbawonck to the Croton river. The site of the present vil lage of Peekskill was called Sackhoes and was occupied by an Indian village known by that name. Teller's point was called Senasqua. Tradition weaves the story that the forms of the ancient warriors still haunt the surrounding glens and woods of this district, and the Haunted Hollow, and the sachems of Teller's point, have become household words in the neighbor hood. Another tradition tells us that a desperate conflict was 1 In one of the Phillipse Deeds, it is described as " a great rock called by the Indians SiggAes." APPENDIX. 367 once held here by the Kitchawongs against their enemies, and that the mound near the entrance to Teller's point was erected over the dead who fell on that memorable occasion. Anthony's nose was called Kittatenny, a Delaware term signi fying "endless hills."1 Poconteco river, called also Pekanteco or Peregbanduck, is presumed to express in its name the dark river; from pohkunni, dark, inde. pecontecue^ night. The stream may have been densely overshadowed by trees.