The authorities of that colony were evidently satisfied to leave the westward extension of English possessions to the individual enterprise of the settlers, meantime holding themselves in readiness to support such enterprise by their sanction, and regarding all the land occupied by their advancing people as English soil, without reference to the counterclaims of the Dutch. The purchase made by Xathaniel Turner, lor the citizens of New Haven, in L640, of territory reaching considerably to the west of the present eastern boundary of our county, was confirmed to the inhabitants of Stamford on August 1 1, l<;r>r>, by the Indian chief Ponus and Onox, his eldest son. The tract bought in L640 ran to a distance sixteen miles north of the Sound. By the wording of the new deed of l<;r>r>, its bounds extended "sixteen miles north of the town plot of Stamford, and two miles still further north tor the pasture of their [the settlers'] cattle; also eight miles east and west." The Indian owners, upon this occasion, received as satisfaction four coats of English (doth. No settlement of the region was begun during the continuance of Dutch rule in Xew Xetherland, and thus the matter did not come prominently to the notice of Director Stuyvesant. But in the preceding year a private English purchase from the Indians was made of a district lying nearer the Dutch settlements and within the limits of the already well-established jurisdiction of the New Amsterdam authorities, which became a matter of acute irritation. On the 14th of November, 1(>54, Thomas Pell, of Fairfield, Conn., bought from the sachems Maminepoe and Ann-Hoock (alias Wampage), and five other Indians, " all that tract of land called West Chester, which is bounded on the east by a brook, called Cedar Tree Brook or Gravelly Brook, and so running northward as the said brook runs into the woods about eight English miles, thence west to