graintown

Updated: May 3, 2025

Greenburgh, "Graintown" bounds Yonkers on the north. Here, the present site of Dobbs Ferry, was the Indian town of Weck-quas-keck, "the place of the bark kettle." It was the unprovoked murder of an Indian here and its subsequent revenge that led to the massacre of the Indians in Jersey and the following Indian war which brought the Dutch almost to the last extremity.

C. G. (Charles Gilbert) Hine - The New York and Albany Post Road: From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against: Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry: Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred: and Five