and the wise, rule of the day in such matters, (the reason of which has been fully explained in the beginning of this essay in speaking of the Native owners of the County) * obtained from the Indian dwellers upon the lands of his grant as a whole, a special deed of confirmation. This Instrument is very important as it states specifically the lands in, and the bounds of, the region embraced in the Manor of Cortlandt. It is dated the 8th of August 1699, and is in there words ;

Indian Deed of Confirmation of the Manor of Cortlandt.

" We, Sachima- Wicker, Sachem of Kightawonck," (and twenty two other Indians seven of whom were squaws) " all right, just, natural owners and proprietors of all the land hereinafter mentioned, lying and being within the bounds and limits of the Mannor of Cortlandt, &c., have sold, for a certain sum of money, all that tract and parcel of land, situate, lying, and being in the Mannor of Cortlandt, in West Chester County, beginning on the South side Kightawonck Creek, and so along the said Creek to a place called Kewighecock '% and from thence Northerly along a Creek called Peppeneghek ^ to the head thereof, and then due east to the limits of Connecticut, being the easternmost bounds of said Mannor, and from thence Northerly along the limits of Connecticut aforesaid to the river Mutighticus' ten miles, and from thence due west to Hudson's river, together with all the lands soils &c &o.* The witnesses were John Naufau (the Lieut. Governor) Abraham De Peyster, James Graham, and A. Livingston.