[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] From Poughkeepsie down the Mohicans had on this (the east) side of the river the Wappinger family above and in the Highlands, the Kitchawank family along the Croton, the Sintsinck family within our present Ossining, and the Weck-quaesqueek family from the Sintsincks down to Spuyten Duyvil, and between the Hudson and the Bronx." The name Weckquaesqueek, he adds, "was applied not to the family only, but to a rivulet empty-ing into the Hudson at Dobbs Ferry, and also to a family village at the rivulet's mouth." From 1614, when the commercial intercourse be-tween the Dutch and the Indians had already com-menced, down to 1693, when, by a royal charter from the English crown, the Manor of Philipsburgh, stretch-ing from the Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Croton, and from the Hudson to the Bronx, was erected, the mutual relations of the colonists and the savages were sometimes warlike and sometimes peaceful, though happily the latter condition for the most part prevailed. No grants nor charters were ever given by the Dutch that did not require the grantees to buy of the Indians whatever lands they appropriated, at a purchase, and by a payment, to which both parties agreed. Still, there were occasions of ill-feeling and sometimes of violence brought about by personal aggression from one side or the other, which resulted in mutual bloodshed and wrong.