M., and from thence by marked trees to a small run which runs into the above said brook, and there is marked with a mark, the which tract of land is called by the English name of Hogg Pond ridge, to have and to hold, &c., &c.

In witness hereof I have set to my hand this 4th day of September, in the year A.D. 1680.

Witness the mark of S Couko. ' ' •* The mark of

Owrovvvvoaha O Maremakung

alias 6 Will.

The next year occurs another sale from the same chief, Maramaking, " For a valuable consideration, by the inhabitants of the

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town of Rye, already received, namely, three coates in hand of the said inhabitants.

"For which he alienates, covenants, and sells to the same a certain tract of land lying between Byram river and the Blind brook or Honge.''^ In witness whereof I have set to my hand this Sth of October, 1681.

Witness the mark of Maramakiug,

Wissacanow "^ or else Lame Will,

Cowwows --^^>

Pammetum Z

Joshua Knapp,

Jacob Pail:©,

The above sales were long known and distinguished as Lame WiWs two purchases.

A.D. 1681, Peter Disbrow sells his Indian purchase on Poningoe neck to the rest of the proprietors. In 1683, Colonel Dongan arrived at New York as governor of the province. Soon afterwards the governor and council of Connecticut, in a letter to Dongan, dated October 5th, 1683, complain of a warrant having been issued to the constables of Rye, Greenwich and iStamford, wliich towns they claim are in Connecticut, by charter and agreement of 1664. ^ Dongan, in reply, October 9, 1683,b asserts that the Duke's patent extends to Connecticut river, and refers to the former agreement, twenty miles east of Hudson's river, which he is by no means compelled to confirm, only refers to the old claim for the purpose of extending as far as he can eastward of Hudson's river.