About 1700 Catonah or Catoona and Coll confirmed to the English (inhabitants of Stamford) all the previous grants of territory, "westward as far as Bedford," and acknowledged the receipt of "considerable and valuable sums of money;" and beside all this make special mention "of deeds or grants made to the English by Taphasse, Ponus, Penchayo, old Onox, young Onox, a deed to Captain Turner and also a deed by Hawatonaman, which the Stamford records have not preserved." J In a conveyance to John Belden, of Norwalk, and others, Sept. 30th, 1708, Catonah styles himself "Sachem of the Ramapo Indians within his majesty's province of New York," and this is the last we hear of him. AVachamane was probably his son and successor in the Sachemdom.

•Address of Joseph Barratt, Esq., 4th July, 1S7G. tE. Hall's Hist. Rec of Norwalk, page S2. ^Huntington's History of Stamford.

Recorder Catonah, July, '77.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

A bold eminence lying to the north of Bedford village retains the aboriginal name of Aspetong or Aspicung (Indian terms for a:i indigenous variety of an odoriferous grape); while another on the west, covered with luxurious woods and visible from all parts of the surrounding country, still bears the title of its aboriginal proprietor, Nanama, one of the six great sagamores who (we shall see presently) sold land half a mile square lying west of the old Hop Grounds in 1692. Two roads in the western part of the town traverse the Indian paths of Potiticus and Suckebouk, the former leading to Cohansey, a wild and romantic spot west of Broad Brook, and almost under the shadow of Nanama. Here was a famous spring of water, and here the Indians continued to reside down to a late period of our Colonial History.