Tradition tells us, that he lies buried beside his favorite wife on the heights of Cantitoe ( Katonah' s own land), and two immense boulders on the farm of Henry E. Pellew, Esqr., are shown as marking the spot, where, with his face towards the rising sun, lies all that was mortal of the great chieftain."0 Katonah may have been the son of Powahag or Powahay the eldest son of Onox, and left issue at least two sons, who figure in the Bedford conveyances, viz., Papiag and Wackemane.

A remarkable feature about these Indian deeds of Bedford is, that with the exception of the first one, no consideration of great value is in any case named. The bargains were usually made " to the full satisfaction" of the grantors; and the doubtful phraseology leads to the suspicion that some of the early settlers had the knack of making easy bargains with the red men when they were in good humor. In many of their bounds, except where streams were followed, these deeds are indefinite, and it is believed that in some cases parcels of land were included in two or more deeds, and other parcels were left out entirely. They could afford to be careless about a few acres at the prices of those times.'6

Upon the 23d of June, 1736, "the land to the north of Cross River was divided by lot among the twenty-nine proprietors of Bedford."

Among the largest landed of the proprietors of Bedford was Jacobus Van Cortlandt, son of Hon. Oloff Stevens Van Cortlandt and brother of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, Lord of the manor of Cortlandt (which lordship embraced the upper portion of the town). This individual had purchased lands here from the Indians and settlers as late as 1 7 14, so that his estate, as we shall have occasion to show presently, when divided in 1743, amounted to 5,115 acres.