How extensive an area this description embraced cannot be stated its terms being too vague, but is was a very large tract lying east of the eighteen hundred acre tract called Sachus, or Sachoes, and known as " Rycke's Patent," which embraced the present village of Peeks Kill and its immediate neighbourhood, the fee of which was not owned by Stephanus van Cortlandt, although within the limits of the Manor, and subject to its jurisdiction, till 1770, when it was granted by special act a civil organization of itg own, as will be hereafter shown.

These lands including all his purchases upon both sides of the Hudson River were granted and conr firmed, to Stephanus van Cortlandt, June 17th, 1697, by the Manor-Grant of the Manor of Cortlandt. Itg

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

boundaries as therein stated are thus set forth, " a certain tract and parcell of Land situate Lying and being upon the East side of Hudson's River, Beginning on the North Line of the Mannor of Philipseburghe, now in the tenour' and occupation of Fredrick Phillipse, Esqr., one of the Members of our said Council], and to the south side of a Certain Creeke called Kightawank Creek,^ and from thence by a Due East Line Runing into the woods Twenty English miles, and from the said north line of the Mannor of Philipseburghe upon the south side of said Kightawank Creek running along the said Hudson River Northerly, as the said River runs, unto the North side of a High Hill in the highlands commonly called and Known by the Name of Anthony's Nose, to a Red Ceader tree, Which Makes the South Bounds of the Land now in y' tenour and occupation of Mr. Adolph Phillipse' Including in the said Northerly Line all the Meadows, Marches, Coves, Bays, and Necks of Land and pennensulaes that are adjoining or Extending into Hudson's River within the Bounds of the said Lines, and from said red ceader tree another Due Easterly Line Runing into the Woods Twenty English Miles, and from thence along the Partition Line between our Colony of Conecticut and this Our Province untill you come into the place where the first Easterly Line of twenty miles Doth Come, the Whole being Bounded on the East by the said Partition Line between our said Collony of Conecticut and this our Province, and on the south side by the Northerly Line of the Mannor of Philipseburghe to southward of Kightawank Creeke aforesaid, and on the west by the said Hudson's River, and on the North side from the aforesaid red ceader tree by the south Line of the Land of Mr.