The num- ■ber of bodies can only be determined by means of the skulls, as the bones are all mixed together, ami many of them crumble at the touch into line dust. The best preserved portions of bodies are the teeth."

The discovery of these bones at this time is certainly a marked coincidence. There can be little doubt that the conjecture as to their being the remains of the Indians slain near this s|>ot in the attack made upon them by Kieft is the true one.

^See Bolton's " Hist. Westchester County," article Xew Rochelle.

Territories in America. To all to whom these presents shall come, send- ! eth greeting; U'/iercm, there is a certain Tract of Land within this Government upon the Main Situate, lying and being to the Eastward of West Chester bounds, bounded to the Westward with the river, called by the Indians ' .\queanonncke,' commonly known by the English by the ' name of Hutchinson's river, which runnith into the Bay lying between Throgmorton's Neck and .\nn Hook's Neck, conunonly called Hutchinson's Hay, bounded on the east by a brook called Cedar Tree Brook, or Gravelly Brook, on the South by the .Sound which lieth between Long Island and the main land, with all the islands in the Sound not already granted or otherwise disputed of, lying before that tract of land so bounded, as is before expressed, ami northward to run into the woods about eight English miles in breadth, as the bounds to the Sound, w hich i said trai t of land hath heretofore been purchased of the Indian propriei tors, and ample satisfaction given for the same.