jacent parts, on the east side of Hudson's River, the which have not yet been purchased of the Indyan Proprieto". These presents are to authorize you, Co" Stopliiiniis van Oortlandt, Mayor of this City, if fitting opportunity sliall present, to treat with, and agree for, any part of the said Land for wh*"'' there may be present occasion of settlement, or for the whole, with the Indyan Sachems or Proprieto". Tlic payment whereof to be made publicly at the Fort or City Ifall.

(iiven under my hand in New York this IGth day of Novem"", 1G77.

Andros." '

This license, it will be seen, was general, and jierniitted van Corllandt to buy of the Indians whenever it n)ight conveniently be done. No time was mentioned and it operated as an indefinite permission to extinguish the- Indian title in the region iuinu>d. Si.\ years after its date, in 1G83, he bought the peninsula afterwards, and now known as Vcrplanck's Point, and another large tract adjoining it running to the eastward, the former called by the natives Meanagli," and the latter Appamapogh, which were conveyed to him by the annexed Deed; --

SiKCllAM, and sir other Indians, to Slipluinus van ( 'ort/andt.

"To all christian i)eople to whom this present writing shall come: Siecham, Pewimine, Oskewans, Tuihnm, Qucrawighint, Isighera, ami Prackises, all Indians, true and rightful owners and i)roprietors of the hinds, hereinafter mentioned, as for themselves and the rest of their relations send, greeting, know YE that for and in consideration of the sum of twelve pounds in wampum and several other merchandises, as by a schedule hereunto annexed more at large, doth and may appear, to them the same Indians in hand paid before the ensealing ami delivering thereof, the receipt whereof is liereby acknowledged, and lor other divers causes and considerations, they, the said Indians have granted, bargained and sold, aliened, enfeofted and confirmed, and by these presents do lully, clearly and absolutely grant, bargain, sell, alien, eiil'eof, and confirm unto Stephanns Van Cortlandt of the city of New York, merchant, his heirs or assignes forever, all that certain tract or ])arcel of land situate, lying or being on the east side of the Hudson River, at the entering in of the Highlands, just over against Haverstraw, lying on the south side of the creek called Tammocsis, and from thence easterly in the woods to the head of the creek called Kewightabagh, and so along said creek northerly to Hudson River, and thence westerly to the utmost point of the said