History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 11 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The tract occupied by the Reckgawawancs on the mainland was called Keckesick, and is described as " lying over against the flats of the Island of Manhates." In its northern extent it included the site of the present City of Yonkers, and on the east it reached to the Bronx River. Their chiefs were Rechgawac, for whom they appear to have been called, Feequesmeck and Peckauniens. Their first sachem known to" the Dutch was Tackerew (1639). In 1682 the names of Cohans. Teattanqueer and Wearaquaeghier appear as the grantors of lands to Frederick Philipse. 2. The Weckquaesgecks. This chieftaincy is known to have had, as early as 1644, three intrenched castles, one of which remained as late as 1663, and was then garrisoned by eighty warriors Their principal village was where Dobbs Ferry now stands. It is said that the outlines of it can still be traced by numerous shell beds. It was called Weckquaesgeck, and its location was at the mouth of Wicker's Creek (called by the Indians the V\ ysquaqua or Weghqueghe). Another of their villages was Alipconck, the -place of the elms, ' now Tarrytown. Their territory appears to have extended from Norwalk on the Sound to the Hudson, and embraced considerable portions of the towns of Mount Pleasant, Creenburgh, ~ Note by William Wallace Tooker: Tins is an incorrect derivation.