History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 11 (part 5)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] They had villages beside Wampus Lake in the town of North Castle, near Pleasant -ville, in tlic town of Mount Pleasant, and near the present villages of Bedford and Katonah. 6. The Siwanoys, also known as "one of the tribes of the seacoast." This was one of the largest of the Wappinger subdivisions. They occupied the northern shore of the Sound from Norwalk twenty-four miles to the neighborhood of Hellgate. How far inland their territory extended is uncertain, but their deeds of sale covered the manor lands of Morrisania, Scarsdale, and Pelham, from which New Rochelle, Eastchester, Westchester, New Castle, Mamaro-MORTAR AND PESTLE. ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS 27 neck, and Searsdale, and portions of White Plains and West Farms have been carved. They possessed, besides, portions of the towns of Rye and Harrison, and of Stamford (Conn.), and