Seven years later oek, the mill creek, north to Negagonse. he purchased an intervening district " called Papsickenekas," lying on the east bank of the river, extending from opposite Castle island south to a point opposite Smack's island, includ ing the adjacent islands, and all the lands back into the interior, belonging to the Indian grantors, and, with his previous pur chases, became the proprietor of a tract of country twenty-four miles long, and forty-eight miles broad, containing, by estima

over seven hundred Thousand acres,

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now comprising the

counties of Albany, Rensselaer, and part of Columbia.

Deeds of a later period for lands in the same vicinity are re

One is given " in the pre corded in Albany county records. sence of Aepjen and Nietamozit, being among the chiefs of the G Callaghan" s New Net her land, i, 122, 123, 1245 Map of Manor of Rens1

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Mohikanders ;" another defines the tract conveyed, as " the fast bank where the house of Machacnotas stood," and another " Schotack or conveys an island called Aepjen's island." Two immense tracts were sold to Robert Livingston, July I2th, 1683, and August loth, 1685, and subsequently included in a The grantors were patent to him for the manor of Livingston. the following " Mahican Indian owners :" Ottonowaw, a crip ple Indian ; Tataemshaet, Oothoot, Maneetpoo, and two In dian women named Tamaranchquae and Wawanitsaw, and