Wetquescheck." He did so, but the castles, three in number, strongly palisaded, were found empty. Two of them were burned. The inmates, it was learned, had gathered at a large castle or village on Patucquapaug, now known as Dumpling Pond, in Greenwich, Ct., to celebrate a festival.

They were attacked there and slaughtered in great numbers. (Doc. Hist.

N. Y., iv, 29.) Bolton's claim that the clan had a castle at or near Dobb's Ferry, may have been true at some date. The name appears in many orthographies; in 1621, _Wyeck;_ in treaty of 1645, _Wiquaeshex;_ in other connections, _Witqueschreek, Weaquassick,_ and Van der Donck's _Wickquaskeek._ Bolton translated it from the form, _Weicquasguck,_ "Place of the bark kettle," which is obviously erroneous.

Dr. Trumbull wrote: "From Moh. _Weegasoeguck,_ 'the end of the marsh or wet meadow.'" Van der Donck's _Wickquaskeck_ has _the same meaning._ It is from Lenape _Wicqua-askek--wicqua,_ "end of," _askek,_ "swamp," marsh, etc.: _-ck, -eck,_ formative. * * * * * [FN] The creek now bearing the name flows to the Hudson through the village of Dobb's Ferry. Its local name, "Wicker's creek," is a corruption of Wickquaskeek.

It was never the name of an individual. Pocanteco, Pecantico, Puegkandico and Perghanduck, a stream so called [FN-1] in Westchester County, was translated by Dr. O'Callaghan from