The early Indian history is connected with the general purchases of the Newark colony. Few native names have been preserved as specially connected with this portion of the tract— hardly more than Yauntakah as the name of Third River, Wachung as the mountain, and Watseson, Wattseson or Watsessing, the crooked stream. The Hackensacks continued numerous for some years.
Outbreaks were sometimes feared, as in the time of King Philip’s war in Connecticut in 1783, but no disturbance occurred here. As the natives were a peaceable tribe and their lands were honestly purchased, they quietly withdrew. The last one left the region for Canada in 1761.
[Benjamin West's painting (in 1771) of William Penn's 1682 treaty with the Lenape]
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