By reference to the map, it will be observed that all these first Westchester settlements were closely contiguous to one another, and embraced a continuous extent of territory." Bronck's patent reached to the mouth of the Bronx River, and was there joined by Cornell's; beyond which, successively, were Throckmorton's grant and the domain occupied by Anne Hutchinson. It is also of interest to note that the upper boundary of the four tracts corresponded almost exactly with the present corporate limits of the City of New York on the Sound.

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HE troubles of the Dutch with the Indians, to which frequent allusion has been made, began in 1641, as the result of a revengeful personal act, capitally illustrating the vindicIn 1626, fifteen years betiveness of the Indian character. x venerable Indian warrior, accompanied by his nephew, a lad

of tender age, came to New Amsterdam with some furs, which he intended to sell at the fort. Passing by the edge of the " Collect," a natural pond in the lower part of Manhattan Island, he was stopped

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by three laborers belonging to the farm of Director Minnit (said to have been negroes), who, coveting the valuable property which he bore, slew him and made off with the goods, bnt permitted the boy to escape. The latter, after the custom of his race in circumstances of personal grievance, made a vow of vengeance, which in 1641, having arrived at manhood's estate, he executed in the most deliberate and cruel manner. He one day entered the shop of Claes Cornel isz Hmits, a wheelwright living near Turtle Bay, in the vicinity of Forty-fifth street and the East River. The Dutchman, who knew him well, suspected no harm, and, after setting food before him, went to a chest to get some cloth which the young savage had said he came to purchase.