"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

1 This pajxT is recorded in the Sec. of State's off., Albauy, Lib. 27, p. 238, uiid in West Co. Iteg. off., Lib. .\, 228. It is iilso in XIV. Col. Hist., 515.