" To all to whom this present writing shall come, doth witness, that we Shahash, Panazarah, Wanacapeen, Kneed, Taquamarke, and Awarazawis, having formerly sold unto Jonas Broncks a large tract of land lying and being between ye river commonly called Broncks' river and Harlem kill, and more especially that tract of land that Colonel Morris stands now possest of, as his draught and ground brief bearing date in ye year 1675, excepting forty morgena of land that we sold Daniel Turner ye elder, being bounded on the west side with Harlem river, the aforesaid Colonel Morris his land, being bounded on the north side with the land of John Archer, beginning at Crabb Island and running east or thereabouts until it comes to ye corner tree of Richardson and Hunt and so down to ye southward according to ye marked line until it come to ye bound brook between ye said Colonel Morris and ye said Richardson and Hunt, and from thence along ye creek to ye Sound or Eist river until you come to Daniel Turner's land, that's above mentioned, including the purchase of ye said Colonel Morris, that point of land called Nauasin, where

' A Dutch moygeu measured a little le.ss than two acres English,

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formerly lived a Frenchman named Marcus Dossisway, all which parcel or tract of land we do for ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, and assignees, fully and wholly acquit and discharge for ever ye said Colonel Morris, his heyres, executors, and administrators, of all and every part and parcel of ye residue of ye money that should have been paid by ye aforesaid Broncks for the purchase of ye said land, declaring to the world that we acknowledge for ourselves, our heyres, executors, and assignees, to be fully paid, satisfied, and contented.