The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, Vol. II (1881 revised ed.)
Yv^'apomk, his niarko,
5. TccKOP.p.E, his marke, 3. "WK.vftUAPEnrcKE, his marke,
4. Capahase, his marke, 8. QrAxu.?co, his marke,
7. Shaquiske, his marke, 6. PASSACHAHExyE, his marke,
9. Hap.rawooke, his marke. Signed in prescnrc of Ed"\vai:d Walters,
IllCIIAKD PONTOS,
Nathan Bailey.
March 12tli, 1604, I Shawnarockett iu the name and bclialf of the rest doe :.cknowledge to liave received of Edv>-ard Jessup and Mr. PLichardson full satisfaction for the tract of land in this bill specified.
Witness, SHAW:NAR0CEETT, his mark.
Edwap.d Waltee3,
RlCnAIiB POXTON,
Na-ThaxI' Bailey, <t Entered at Hampstead at ye time of the general meeting there the 9th day of March, 1C64.
Another deed from the above mentioned Indians to Edward Jessup and John Richardson bears date March 12th, 1664, which was recorded for Mr. Richardson, April sth, 1667.*
The Indian purchases were patented in 1666, to Edward Jessup and John Richardson of Westchester :
THE ROYAL PATENT OF 'STEST FARMS.
"Richard Nicolls, Esq., eovcrnor general under his royal highness, JaniC"? Duke of York and Albany, &c,, &c., of all his territoryes in America, to all to whom these presents shall come, sendeth greeting : whereas, there is a certain tract or parcel of land within this government, situate, lying and being ncare unto and within the limits of the towne of Westchester. Upon ye maine being bounded to the east by the river conmionly called by the Indians Aqufhnng, otherwise Broncke river, extending to the midst of said river to the north, by the mark't trees and by a piece of hassock meadow, westwardly a little brook called by the natives Sackicralaing , and southward by the Sound or E"st River, iucludin'' within a certain neck of land called Quinnahung, which said parcel or tract and neck of land with the appurtenances, together with commonage and liberty for ramre of horses and cattle, as free as they please into tlio woods, ha;h heretofore been ioinlly purchased of the Indyan proprietors by Edward Jessup and John Richardson of Westchester aforesaid, and due satisfaction hath ye ttien been given fur the same, as by the deed remaining upon record, more at large