Dongan's deed from the Indians thus describes the tract, which from the Indian name of the Croton, was called Kichtawanck, or Kitchtawong; -- "all that Tract or parcell of Land situate Lying and being on the East side of Hudson's River, within the County of Westchester, beginning at Kichtawong Creek, and so running along Hudson's River northerly to the land of Ste])hanus van Corliaudt, from thence to the Ciistwardmost end of the Said van Cortlandts Land, and from thence to a great fresh Water Pond called Keakates, and from the said pond along the creek that runs out of the said Pond to Kichtawong Creek, and so downward on the south side of the said creek to Hudson's River, including all the land, soil, and meadow within the bounds aud limits aforesaid." Johu Knights, on the 20th of April, 1687, reconveyed it by deed to Governor Thomas Dongan. * Aud from Dongan it subsequently passed to Stephanus van Cortlandt.

Previously to his purchase of the Dongan lands, and on the 13th of July, 1688, Stephanus Van Cortlandt bought from the Haverstraw Indians a tract on the West side of the Hudson River, directly opposite to the promontory of Anthony's Nose, and North of the Dunderbergh Mountain, forming the depression or valley,' througli the upper part of which, in the Revolutionary War, Sir Henry Clinton came down and captured Forts .Constitution and Montgomery, then commanded by his distant relatives and namesakes. Generals, George, and James, Clinton. The original deed, among the Van Wyck papers, which has never before been printed, is as follows : Indian Deed to Stephanus van Cortlandt JOT Lands on the West Side of the Hudson.