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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II

Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848. 592 words

Indians, Pocaiileco or Wackandeco, wiiii power thereon to set a mill or mills, with a due portion of land on each side, adjoining unto the said river, lying within the bounds of ihe Indians land at VV^ickers creek, on the east side of ihe Hudson river, which said Indian land, was by the said Frederick Philips purchased from the said native Indian proprietors thereof, by the licence and approbation of the said Sir Edmund Andross and the said Indian proprietors did, in the presence of Sir Edmund Andross aforesaid, acknowledge to hive received full satisfaction of him the said Frederick Philips for the said land adjoining, to each syde of the creek or river aforesaid, which said land is situate, lying and being on each side of the said creek or river, north and south IGOO treads or steps which at 1-2 fi to the rod, makes 400 rod and runs up into the country so far as the said creek or river goeth, wiiii this proviso or restriction that if the creek or river called by the Indians, Nippiorha, and by the churiers Yonkers creek or kill shall come witliin the space of land of 400 rods on the south side of the aforenamed creek or river, that shall extend no farther than the said creek or river of Nippiroha, but the rest to be so far up into the country on each side of the said creek or river called Pocanteco as it runs, being about north-east, to have and to hold all the aforesaid recited tract or parcel of land unto him the said Frederick Philips, his heirs and assigns forever, as by the said grant or patent registered in our secretary's office of our province of New York, &c., aforesaid, relation being thereunto had may more fully and at large appear, and whereas the Honorable Thomas Dongan late gov. of our province of New York, &c., aforesaid, by virtue of the power in him then residing hath, by another grant or patent sealed with the seal of our said province of New York, and registered in our secretary's office of our province aforesaid, bearing date 23d of September, in the year of our Lord 1084, given granted, ratified, and confirmed, unto said Frederick Philips, his heirs and assigns, several tracts and parcels of land with the limits and bounds hereafier mentioned, that were according to the usage, custom, and laws of our said province purchased by the said Frederick Philips from the native Indians and proprietors, in manner and form following, (that is to say,) all those certain parcels and pieces of land lying about the Wigquaskeek that was on the 24ih day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1680, purchased by the said Frederick Philips of the Indian Goharius, brother of Weskora, sachem of Wigquaskeek, for himself and by the full order of Goharius, which certain parcel or parcels of land are lying about Wigquaskeek to the north syde and tending from the land of the aforesaid Frederick Philips running along the North river to the north of the small creek called by ihe Indians Scpackena creek, as'far as it goeih into the woods, and coming to the end of the aforesaid creek, then shall the aforesaid pieces or parcels of land have their lyne north-east, or if the creek Pocanteco Wackandeco upon which at present stands the mills of the said Frederick Philips, shall run upon a north-east lyne, then the said land shall run along the said creek Pocanteco, or Weghkandeco, into the