Upon the 8th of August, A.D. 1699, Sachima Wicker, sachem of Kightawonck and his associates sold to Stephanus Van Cortlandt, all their rights as owners and proprietors in the " land lying and being within Cortlandt's manor, beginning on the south side of Kightawonck creek, and so along the said creek to a place called Kewighecock, and from thence along a creek called Peppeneghek to the head thereof, and then due east to the limits of Connecticut, and from thence northerly along the limits of Connecticut aforesaid, to the river Mattegtico's ten miles, and from thence due west to the Hudson river, &c, &c."°

A portion of the Salem lands, if not the whole, may have originally belonged to the great sachem Catonah, whose territory extended from the Sound as far north as Danbury in Connecticut ; his possessions on the west appear to have been bounded by the western line of Bedford.

" In the year 1708, John Belden, Samuel Keeler, Matthew Seymour, Matthias St. John, and other inhabitants of Norwalk, purchased a large tract of land (the north-west corner of which was styled by the natives, Mamanusquag) lying between that town and Danbury, bounded west on the partition line between Connecticut and New York. This purchase

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was made of Catonah, the chief sachem, and the other Indians, who were the proprietors of that part of the country." a

Van der Donck, the historian, in his map of 1656, locates the Indian village of Pechquenakonck somewhere in this vicinity. The Indian burying ground is situated on the estate of the late Hon. Isaac Purdy, in this town, a little north-west of the mansion house. In 1778 upwards of forty mounds were visible. Vast quantities of arrow and spear heads are found on the higher grounds of this town, showing that Mamanusquag and Appamaghpogh were once great hunting grounds.