" 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.

Thus Stephanus van Cortlandt became the undisputed and acknowledged Lord of "The Lordship and Manor of Cortlandt."

There were two small parcels of land within the above general limits of the Manor, the soil of which was not owned by either Stephanus van Cortlandt or his heirs, one of eighteen hundred acres and one of three hundred, the latter fronting on the north side of Peekskill bay, the former on the Hudson River between Verplank's Point and Peekskill creek. The former was the tract known as "'Ryke's Patent." Its Indian name was "Sachus," or "Sackhoes," and it was purchased of the Indians on the 21st of April, 1685, under a license dated March 6, 1684, from Governor Dongan, by Richard Abrams, Jacob Abrams, TeunisDekey or De Kay, Seba, Jacob and John Harxse;* and on the 23rd of December, 1685, a patent was granted to these purchasers and one or two others for this tract, in which it is thus described : -- "All that certain tract or parcel of land, situate, lying, and being on Hudson's River at a certain place called by