[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. McCloskey, and since that time mass has been said every Sunday, the sacramenta have been administered and religious instruction imparted. A Sunday-school has also been organized. Crotox I'm xt is a peninsula which projects about two and one-half miles into the Hudson River, and divides theTappan Zee OD the South from Haverstraw Hay on the north. About the middle, the land is sub-merged to a slight depth, and the space is rilled with tall water-plants. A narrow road connects the two portions of the peninsula. The outer portion is tri-angular in shape and is about one and one-fourth miles long, and one-half mile wide in its greatest extent. It contains about two hundred acres. At tbe base of the peninsula, according to tradition, stood the Indian castle or fort of Kitchawan, occupy-ing a position which gave it many advantages in case of attack. It was said to have been erected by the sachem, Croton, to secure himself and his tribe in the possession of these rich fishing and hunting-grounds. The Indian burying-ground was located a short dis-tance east of the fort. Many weapons of war have beeu obtained in the vicinity of this fort. Twelve acres on the tip of the point were not in-cluded in the purchases made by Robert Underbill, and were afterwards bought by his son, Dr. Richard T. Underbill, a practicing physician of New York City, who erected thereon a handsome Italian villa.