The Stone Arabia Patent, on the east side of the Hudson River opposite the mouths of the Mohawk River,  was granted in 1670 to Robert Saunders, who in turn sold it to Joannes Wendell in 1683.  In 1763 his heir, Robert Wendell, sold the land to Abraham Jacob Lansing, who established the settlement of Lansingburgh there in 1771.  The Mohican name for the land was Tascamcatick and it included the site of the Mohican village known as  "Unawat's Castle."  The name "Stone Arabia" was chosen, in part, because of the presence of much cobbles and gravels in the alluvial soil on the flood plain.  By the 1780s the name "Stone Arabia" ceased to be used in favor of the legal name "Lansingburgh" or the settlement's popular name "New City."