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The same year we find John Dibble and wife conveying to Jacques Van Courtlandt 700 acres of land lying in Bedford, called the Vineyard Purchase, besides a certain parcel of meadow and upland in ye bounds of said Bedford, first purchased, with marked trees northerly, eastwardly by a small brook which runneth into Cross River, and northerly by the Cross River, and southerly by the Cross River, containing about 400 acres.

In 1703, the town granted John Thomson formerly a London merchant but lately of Stamford, a tract of land on condition that he should pay forty shilling, "and to bring up four hundred sheep and lambs next summer and let them to ye inhabitants of ye town for two bits in money or one pound and halfe of flees wool as the sheep afords it yearly."

Upon the 5th of May, 1703, Catonah Sagamore and Wackcniane, for themselves and in behalf of an}' other Indians concerned, sell to Zachariah Roberts of Bedford, all that land between Bedford bounds and Muscotah River which lycth between Oisqua River and ye Cross River, for the several particulars hereinafter named.

This is ye truth of ye bargain test. Zaciiakiaii Roberts, Sen.

10 pieces of eight which is paid, 6 shirts, 4 dozen coats, 2 blankets,

1 broad cloth coat, 4 lbs of powder,

4 hatchets,

2 gallons of rum. a

• From the original in the possession of Hon. John Jav. Bedford Book of rublic Uec. vol. i. p. 181. sTown Kec. of Deed, vol. i, p. C9.