The deed to Livingston conveyed lands "On both sides of Roelof Jansen's Kill,- called by the Indians Saulchenak," including lands "along the river's bank from said Roeloft" Jansen's Kill, northwards up, to a small stream opposite CatskiU named Wachanekasseck, and southwards down the river to opposite the Sagertjes Kill, called by the Indians Saaskahampka." In the Livingston Patent of 1684: "Eighteen hundred acres of woodland lying between a small creek or kill lying over against Catskill called Wachanakasseck and a place called Suaskahampka," and in patent of 1686: "On the north by a line to be drawn from a certain creek or kill over against the south side of Vastrix Island in Hudson's River, called Wachankasigh," to which Surveyor John Beatty added more precisely on has map of survey in 1715 : "Beginning on the east side of Hudson's River southward from Vastrix Island, at a place where a certain run of water watereth out into Hudson's River, called in ye Indian tongue, Wachanl^assik." The "run of

^The creek was the boundmark between the Wappingers and the Mahicans. (See Wahamanessing.) - Named from Roeliff Jansen, Overseer of the Orphan Court under the Dutch Government. (French.)

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water" is not marked on Beatty's map. nor on the map of survey of the paten't in 1798, but it is marked, from existence or presumed existence, on a m.ip of the boundary line between New York and Massachusetts and seems to have been one of the several small streams that flow down the bluff from the surface, apparently abcmt two miles and a half north of Roelof Jansen's Kill, in the vicinity of the old Oak Hill station' on the H. R. R., later known as Catskill station. While referred to in connection with the boundmark to identify its location, its precise location seems to have been lost.