[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It is said to mean "the place of the bark kettle,"' and to have been corrupted by the English into " Wickers Creeks." The terri* tory occupied by these Indians is described by De Yries, in 1640, as lying on the east bank of what is now the Hudson River, opposite to Tappaan. which lies on the west. The Indians belonged to the Mohi-GREENWICH. 173 can branch, one of the sub-divisions of the great Algonquin race. From Lake Erie to the mouth of the Mohawk, on the Hudson, extended the territory of the Five Nations, to whom the French gave the name of the Iroquois. From Albany southward to Spuyten Duyvil Creek, on the east of the Hudson, and down to the lower slope of the Highlands on the west, stretched the dominion of the Mohicans. Of course, it included all of what now constitutes the county of Westchester. The Manhattan tribe occupied the island of Manhattan, which has since become the world-renowned city of New York, while the Tap-paans and Monseys dwelt on the west side of the Hudson, from the Dunderberg southward below the New Jersey line. In regard to these Indian tribes, it is stated by the Rev. Dr. Cole, in his very able and carefully prepared Historical Discourse at the Bi-Centennial celebration of the city of Yonkers, October 18, 1882, that they "were all divided into families, and each family had one or more villages.