may be regarded as described with sufficient accuracy in what known as Governor Dongan's two purchases (i684~'85), the

is

first

of which extended from the

Paltz tract

to

the Danskammer, and the second from Dans-kammer to Stony point. In the first, the limits of the Esopus Indians, or Warranawon,

kongs^ are defined as terminating at the Dans-kammer, and in the second the jurisdiction of what are therein called " the Murderer's kill Indians," is admitted as from the Dans-kammer

to Stony point. factorily defined.

Their western boundary cannot be so

satis

From the fact that the same names, in

art,

appear as grantors of the Dongan tract, of the Cheesecock tract, and of a tract to Sir John Ashhurst, 3 the latter covering sixteen miles square, commencing at a point eight miles from the Hudson on the south side of "the Murderer's kill," it may be inferred that that boundary terminated with the natural water Were not De Laet's location sufficiently shed of the Hudson. clear, there are other reasons for assuming that the

" This reach (the Fisher's) extends narrow pass, where, on the

to another

west side of the river, there is a point of land that juts out covered with sand, opposite a bend in the river, on which another nation of savages, the Waorantch, DeLaet. have their abode."

At Fisher's hook are Packany, Warenockcr,

Warraiuannankonckx.

Documen-

" Murderer's

and the subsequent signatures classed as " inferior owners." Thus in the Haverstraw

purchase, Sa'ckagkemeck appears sachem or principal, and Werepekes " In the inferior owner." as an