[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The drainage of the northern portion of the town reaches the Hudson through Annsville Creek, that of the centre through the Muscoot and Croton Rivers, and that of the lower through the latter. These rivers bear their present names on the manor-map of 1734. Previous to that time the Croton seems to have borne several names or, more probably, one spelled differently — Kitchawan, Kechtawong and Kighleivank.1 The original inhabitants of this town were the In-dian, the deer and the wild turkey. The Indians, on the east bank of the Hudson, were sub-divisions of the great Mohegan Tribe. In Yorktown, north of the Kitchewan (Croton River) were the Kitch-ewanks, while south of it were the Sints-Sinks and Tankitekes. The Kitehe-wanks had a village, with a burial-ground, located at Lake Keakatis, if tra-dition be correct, at what was called Cedar Point, and the tract of land south of the Mothausic Lakes to the Croton, was called by their name, Kitchewan. The remain-der of the town to the north, has by some been included in what the In-dians called Appamagh-pogh, since, possibly, as Bolton thinks, corrupted into Amawalk, the name of the eastern-central dis-trict. Against this supposition ap-parently are boundaries given in an Indian conveyance. The last In-dian encampment was on what was called Indian Hill, just north of Osceola Lake. The ownership of the land passed out of Indian hands into those of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, mer-chant of the city of New York.