[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] began Indians, known;is " Sint Snicks." They owned the territory as far north as the Croton River, then called the "Kitchewan," the tribe inhabiting above this stream being the " Kitchawongs." An Indian village occupied the present site of Sing Sing, and bore the name "Sink Sink." The Kill-brook was called " Sint-Sinck," or, at least, it is so written on a map which bears the date of 160!). In or about the year 1680 a patent was granted by the British crown to one Vredryck Flypsen, or, as afterward written, " Frederick I'hilipse," permitting him "to freely buy" the district of country extend-ing from Spuyten Duyvel Creek northward to the Croton River. In the course of five or six years he secured the whole region specified. The last pur-chase of land from the Indians was made August 24, 1 Scwion l.iiwn, 184S, Clittp. :in, Sit. ft. 1 N. Y. Hist. Sue. Proc, 1*44, p. 101. Trnns. Am. Auti<|. Soc., vol. ii. p. 71). 1685, being the " tract or parcel of land commonly called Sinck Sinck." Frederick Philipse first spelled the nameas two words " Cinque Singte" and afterwards I as one word, with the same letters, but without the second capital. Thus it is seen the stream, the tribe and their original village, all were called by a name the sound of which is expressed in the various ren-derings above cited, and which the present name per-petuates.