42 The Story of The Bronx 



of New Netherland by the Dutch transferred the controversy 

 about the boundary to their successors, and the final settlement 

 of the boundary line was not attained between New York and 

 Connecticut until the Congress of 1880-81. 



This boundary dispute was of so much importance that, in 

 the report submitted to the States-General and the Company 

 by Stuyvesant after the surrender to Nicolls, he says that the 

 unwillingness of the Dutch to defend the city was caused 



"by the attempts and encroachments at the hands of the 

 English in the preceding year, 1663. 



"First, through Captain John Talcot's reducing East- 

 dorp, situate on the Main, not two leagues from New 

 Netherland, by order and commission of the government at 

 Hartford." 



On March 12, 1663, Edward Jessup and John Richardson 

 of Westchester bought from nine Indians a tract of land 

 west of the Bronx River, extending south to the East River, 

 and northerly to about the middle of the present lower lake 

 in Bronx Park; the western boundary was a small stream 

 called Bungay Creek by the English, or " Sackwrahung " by 

 the Indians ; the eastern boundary was the middle of the Bronx 

 River. The tract was subdivided into twelve farms, and was 

 therefore called the "Twelve Farms, " or since these lay to the 

 west of Westchester, more commonly, the "West Farms." 

 By confirmatory patent of Governor Nicolls, dated April 25, 

 1666, the tract was divided into two equal portions between 

 the two original patentees. Jessup 's daughter Elizabeth 

 married Thomas Hunt of the "Grove Farm" on Throgg's 

 Neck; they came into possession of the neck extending into 

 the East River, which thus became known as Hunt's Point. 

 This was by purchase from "Robert Beachem and Elizabeth, 

 formerly the wife of Edward Jessup, " of "all those hoeing lands 



