[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] All Indian tribes were divided into families, and each family had one or more villages. From Pough-keepsie southward, along the east side of the river, the Mohegan tribe had the Wappinger family above, and in the Highlands, the Kitchawank family along the Croton, the Sintsinck family within our present town of Ossining, and the Weckquaskeek family from the Sintsincks down to Spuyten Duyvil, and between the Hudson and the Bronx Rivers. The Weckquas-keek family of the Mohegan tribe of the Algonquin nation were the Indians of this site.1 Their name is 1 Some maintain that on this side of the Hudson, the Mohegans came down only to the northern boundary of Yonkers, and that Yonkers was Manhattan, not Mohegan ground. This view was taken by the histor-ian, Henry IS. Dawson of Morrisauia, in his Yonkers "Gazette Series" of 1801!. It evidently rests on the following passages from early writers, which seem to us to have been misunderstood : (.() De Laet (" Description of the New Xetherland,'' 1626) says : " On the east side, upon the main land, dwell the Manhattans, etc." The author, in making this statement, is regarding the landscape and river from a point between Nutten (or Governor's) Island and Com-niunipaw. It is while looking from this point, that, having just named and still thinking of Governor's Island, he refers to the main land on the east side, evidently meaning Manhattan Island.