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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I

Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848. 291 words

The town doth also agree that ye land westward of the first purchase, shall be paid by heads ; and every head that payeth the Indians for it shall have every one of them an equal share, according to what they pay. At the same time a committee is chosen by vote, consisting of Zacariah Robertson, John Holmes, jun,, and Jonathan Petit, to see ye Indians satisfied for ye land formerly bought of them, which is west of the first purchase."

Upon the 4th of February, 1702, the town of Bedford sold to

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John Dibble, Crosses vineyard purchase for £18 ; on the 16th of March (1702,) John Dibble agrees to sell lUO acres of the same to Jacobus Van Courlland, 6cc.

By a grant dated April 20, 1702, Katonah and Wackemane convey to the inhabitants of Bedford all that tract of land within the following bounds, viz :

*' To begin where Beaver dam river and Cross River meet and so to run on the north west side of a brook called miry brook, and then to run across the hills westerly on the west side of Cisqua meadows until it meets the river called Cisqua River, and a great swamp, and so to run up the brook and by marked trees to the north end of Byram pond, and so to the north end of Cohamong pond, and then to a great red oak tree formerly marked by the Indians for Bedford southermost bounds which stands on the west side of the west turn of Meanau's River, and this above said land, we Katonah and Wackemane do sell for us our heirs, &c., to the inhabitants of Bedford,