Upon the 4th of January 1703-4, Ketonah Sagamore and Wackemane, chief proprietors of the lands about Bedford, have sold, and by these presents doe sell &c., unto John Dibble of Bedford, in the county of Westchester, &c. a certain tract of upland and meadow, &c. all within ye bounds hereafter named and bounded by marked trees, from one branch of Beaver dam River southward of Stone hills, then to rise westward of Stone hills, northward by ye marked trees until it meets with a brook coming out of Stone hills, and so to be bounded by ye said brook until it meets the Cross River, and bounded by the said Cross River until it meets a small brook, and then bounded westward by Bedford's cross vineyard purchase, and then bounded by Bedford's first purchase, southerly and eastwardly until it meets ye aforesaid branch, which' tract of land thus bounded we Catonah and Wackemane for us our heirs, &c,, have sold to the above said John Dibble, &c,'*

Caroroca n his mark, Catonah ><| his mark, [l. s.]

MoNAQui >H his mark, Wackemane p^ his mark, [l. s.] Simon ^ his mark, Mangocken 72 his mark, [l. s.]

The same year we find John Dibble and wife, conveying to Jacobus Van Conrtland, 700 acres of land lying in Bedford, called the vineyard purchase, besides a certain parcel of meadow and

o The original documents in possession of the Hon, William Jay. . .

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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, containing about 400 acres.