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

4 Ante p. 34.

5 Or Kewigbtequack, as spelled on the Map of the Manor. 8 Now Cross Kiver, an eastern branch of the Croton.

7 Now called the Titicus.

8 Book I of Indian Deeds, 88, Sec. of State's offi. Albany.

' So spelled and named in the original petition to Dongan for the Patent in vol. 2 of Land Papers of 1683, Sec. of State's Office, Albany.

THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OP THE MANORS.

the Indians Sachus, and stretching by the north side of Stephanas van Cortlandt, his hind up to the said river, to another creek, and so runs up said creek iu several courses, to a certain tree marked T. R. west of the aforesaid creek which lies by Stcphanus van Cortiandt'a land, including all the meadows both fresh and salt within said bounds, containing in all 1800 acres or thereabouts." The tenure like that of the Manor was " in free and common soccage according to the tenure of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in his Majesties Kingdom of England." The quit rent was "ten bushels of good winter merchantable wheat yearly, on the five and twentieth day of March [New Years Day according to the then "old style"] in the city of New York.*