CHAPTER II.
_The Green Village_ God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb down Greenwich way!--THOMAS JANVIER.
Did you know that "Greenwich Village" is tautology?
That region known affectionately as "Our Village" is Greenwich, pure and simple, and here is the "why" of that statement.
The word _wich_ is derived from the Saxon _wick_, and originally had birth in the Latin _vicus_, which means village.

Hence, Greenwich means simply the Green Village, and was evidently a term describing one of the first small country hamlets on Manhattan.

Captain Sir.

Peter Warren, on whom be peace and benedictions, is usually given the credit of having given Greenwich its name, the historians insisting that it was the name of his own estate, and simply got stretched to take in the surrounding countryside.

This seems rather a stupid theory.