The general situation Being " follows: as deed the in is described the purchase thus made on the east side of the Hudson River, at the entering in of the Highlands, just over against Haverstraw." Van Cortlandt purchased Earlier in the same year (July 13, 1683) from the Haverstraw Indians a tract of about fifteen hundred acres on the west side of the Hudson, " directly opposite to the promontory of Anthonv's Nose and north of the Dunderberg Mountain, forming the depression or valley through the upper part of which, m capthe Revolutionary War, Sir Henry Clinton came down and tured Forts Clinton and Montgomery." The territory below Verplanck's Point, extending to the mouth of the Croton River, was originally bought from the Indians in part by one Cornelius Van Bursum, of New York City, and in part by of the Governor Dongan. Van Bursum was the first white owner called was language Indian the peninsula of Croton Point, which in present its g receivin before and, , Senasqua of name by the pleasing name, had long been known as Teller's Point (also Sarah's Point), from 'william and Sarah Teller, who were early settlers upon it. in 1685) emGovernor Dongan's lands (purchased from the Indians braced all the river shore, excepting Croton Point, from the mouth of the Croton to Van Cortlandt's property, and in the interior reached s and Dongan's holdings to the Cedar Ponds. Both Van Bursum' were later sold to Van Cortlandt. To him was conveyed also a tract owned by " Hew MacGregor, Gentleman, of the City of Xew York," lying above Verplanck's Point. Thus Stephanus Van Cortlandt became the proprietor of nearly the whole of Westchester County along the Hudson from Croton Bay to the Highlands. In the interior his bounds, both at the north and the south, ran due east twenty miles to the Connecticut border incial agreement between Con(which border was, by the interprov necticut and New York, considered to be at a distance of twenty miles from the Hudson).