[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] seems improbable. Its inhabitants at the time were largely of Hollandish descent, and in the language familiar to them, the word;;roe/>, signifying green, and the words graan and grein, both signifying graim might well, either the one or the other, have sug-gested the first syllable of the name, while the word burg, in the same language, signifying a boron;//), or an incorporated town or district of country, very evi-dently supplied the second. Green-district or drain-district would thus express a prominent feature of the locality. The burg already belonged to it as part of its recognized title of Philipsburg, and when the Philipse proprietor and his family became Tories* during the Revolution, and their property was con-fiscated at its close, the name Philipse naturally dropped out, and the descriptive term Green took its place. The fact that it has always been known as 6Veen-burgh, and never as Gram-burgh, seems to determine its true etymology. The whole region, when it first became known to the Dutch, was inhabited by a powerful tribe of aborigines, whose name, deriv ed from that of a partic-ular place within its limits, though variously written l>y different early explorers and historians, may M given as Weckquaesqueeks.