Upon the 14th of November. 1654, Thomas Pell of Fairfield, in Connecticut, obtained a grant frora the ancient Indian proprietors, embracing all that territory bounded on tlie east by a stream called Stoney brook or river, and so running northward as the said brook or river runs, eight English miles into the woods, thence west to Broncks's river, then down the stream of Broncks's river to a certain bend in the said river, thence by marked trees south until it reaches the tide waters of the Sound which lyeth between Long Island and the main land, together with all the kland in the sound, (fcc, &c. This grant was sigued by the sachem Ann-hoock and five other Indians. A. Dyckuian occurs as

a Drake's Book of the Indians, G9. ■ ,

b There is also a rock upon the south side of the neck bearing the sai^e name, which is said to have been a favorite lisiiing place of the above chief.

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witness. It was subsequently confirmed in council. ^ Thomas Pell stated before a court of assize, held in 1665, that he had obtained license to make the purchase, from the authorities of Connecticut, and that he had paid large sums of money for the same.^J In 1654 it was resolved, at a meeting of the director general and council of the New Netherlands, "that whereas a few English are beginning a settlement at a great distance from our outposts on lands long before bought and paid for, near Vreedlan^ to send there, interdict, and the attorney general, Cornelius van Tienhoven, and forbid them to proceed no farther, but to abandon that spot. Done at Fort Amstel on the 5lh of November, 1654 in New Netherlands,"c *' On lands purchased from the Indians by the Hon.