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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 50

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] woman, or child — was heard to utter a shriek or moan. This battle, if battle it may be called, was by far the most sanguin-ary ever fought on Westchester soil. At White Plains, the most considerable Westchester engagement of the devolution, the com-bined losses of both sides in killed, wounded, and missing did not reach four hundred. The site of the exterminated Indian village has been exactly lo-cated by Bolton. It was called Xanichiestawack, and was in the Town (township) of Bedford, not far from the present Bedford village. It " occupied the southern spur of Indian Hill, sometimes called the Indian Farm, and Stony Point (or Hill), stretching toward the north-west. There is a most romantic approach to the site of the mountain fastness by a steep, narrow, beaten track opposite to Stamford cart-path, as it was formerly denominated, which followed the old Indian trail called the Thoroughfare." The picturesque Mianus River flows by the scene. The last ghastly memorials of the slaughter have long since passed away, but local tradition preserves the recollection of 102 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY many mounds under which the bones of the slain were interred. They were probably laid there by friendly hands. Underbill, in the bitter