[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In the Ulster records is this certificate : u These are to certify that the inhabitants of the towns of New Paltz, being desirous that the first station of their patent named Moggonck might be kept in remembrance, did desire us, Joseph Horsbrook, John Hardenburgh, Roeleft Eltinge, Esq., justices of the Peace for the county of Ulster, to accompany them, and there being Ancrop, the Indian, then brought us to the High Mountain which he named Maggrnapogh, at or near the foot of which hill is a small run of water and a swamp which he called Moggonck, and the said Indian Ancrop affirms it to be, the right Indian names of the said places as witness our hands this nineteenth day of December, 1722." Ancrop was at that time sachem of the Esopus Indians. 394 HUDSON RIVER INDIANS. Schoolcraft has preserved a pictographic inscription on the Esopus rocks, " which, from its antiquity and character appears to denote the era of the introduction of fire-arms and gun powder among the tribes inhabiting that section of the valley of the Hudson." z He says : " The location of the inscription is on the western bank of