In ]G71, Daniel Turneur, of New Harlem, purchased forty morgen of land from the Indian sachems Shatash, Panazarah and others, which said "tract of ia!;d is lying upon ye maine next to ye land of John Archer, begiuuiiig at ye bay on ye south side of Crabb Island and so running along ye creek parting ye maine and Manhattan's Island 10 Brunx land extending east and west su far as the lanil of the said John i:\j-cher," &c.f> This sale is presumed to have embraced Devoe's point, called by the Aborigines "Nuasin."

On the 15th of June, i658, Richard Nicoll, Governor of the Province, confirmed to the above grantee all that "certain piece or parcel of land upon the maine, lying and being to the north of Bronck's land, beginning at the mouth of Maenneppis kill (Cromwell's creek) and goes into the woods the depth of fifty rods, containing eighty acres, &c."

The following conveyance was made by the Indians in 1676, to the widow of Turneur and his son Daniel : --

IISDIAN DEED OF ^rENTlPATHE.

Kew ToiiK, iLvT IOtu, 1676. This day appeared here, in the office of Recorder, Jackeline Turuier, widow, and Daniel Turnier, the Sonne of Daniel Turnier, late of New Harlem, deceased, who brought with him some Indyan proprietors to attend the governor, and, to acknowledge before his Honor, the sale of a certain piece of land at ^Mentipathe Kill, beginning from the mark't white oake tree, so runs nortlierly to a creek called Saproughah, hy Crabb Island, then running east and west to Broukx river. But his Honwr being absent and the said Indyaus, having occasions abroad, so