name

survives in

a territory, the westward boundaries of which are not clearly defined, were the Haverstraws, so called by the Dutch, but

whose aboriginal name appears to have been lost. 2 They took some part in the early wars, but would seem to have been absorbed by the Tappans after the supremacy of the English. Stony point was the northern limit of their territory, as indi cated by the deed to Governor in the

Evans

patent.

Dongan subsequently embraced In a deed to Balthazar De Hart, July

31, 1666, confirmed to him by letters patent from Cateret, and Council of Jersey, April 10, 1671, and subsequently by

New

New

York, the tract conveyed is patent from the Governor of described as " all the land lying on the west side of Hudson's Haverstraw, on the north side of the hills called Verdrietinge hook, on the south side of the highlands, on the

river, called

east of the mountains, so that the same is bounded by Hudson's

river and

round about by the high mountains." 3

This descrip

embraces precisely the western boundary of Haverstraw The deed was executed by Sackewaghgyn, Roansameck, bay. tion

Kewegham, and Kackeros.

By deed to Stephen Van Cortlandt in 1683, it would appear that they had either moved fur ther north or had more northern territory, the tract conveyed

being described as lying opposite Anthony's nose, from the u south side of a creek called Senkapogh, west to the head thereof, then northerly along the high hills as the river runneth to another creek called Assinapink, thence along the same to