them, ' to inquire into the manner of circumstances of said land, and make report.' Their report, dated February 17th, states that 'Humphrey Underbill appeared in behalf of Joseph Budd, son and heir to John Budd deceased, and produced an Indian Grant dated December 8, 1 66 1, alleging that the same did contain the lands mentioned.' The committee found the deed to contain a description of ' a tract of land called Apawanis, bounded on the east by Mackquam River, on the south by the sea against Long Island, on the west by Pocecottsewack River, and on the north by marked trees near Westchester Path ; together with range for feeding and range for cattle, and to fell trees twenty miles north.'

This land, they say, is altogether disclaimed by Harrison ; the tract purchased by him lying north of said marked trees. Underhill was asked whether he had any other objection to advance, and replied that he had at home an Indian deed which justified Budd's claim to the soil for sixteen miles north of the marked trees; but he did not bring it along with him, for it was old and spoiled, being dated in 1666 ; but he had a copy of the deed, which he gave to Colonel Heathcote, who left it before the Governor and Council. The committee could not examine this paper, but humbly referred the matter to the Council.0

The document which Underhill thus unfortunately failed to produce was undoubtedly the deed of April 29th, 1666, by which Shanarocke and others conveyed a tract between Blind Brook and Mamaroneck River, extending ' sixteen English miles from Westchester Path up into the country.'