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and accommodations that were formerly Edward Jessup's. " 

 The deed is dated June 20, 1668. 



In the southwest corner of the West Farms strip, was a 

 small tract whose ownership was in dispute between the heirs 

 of the patentees and the Morrises from 1666 to 1740, when 

 the manor-lord or Morrisania obtained possession. As there 

 were a number of streams in that locality, the question arose 

 as to which was the Sackwrahung. The West Farms people 

 claimed that it was Bungay Creek, or Brook ; Colonel Morris, 

 that it was the stream to the eastward, called Wigwam Brook, 

 and later, Leggett's Creek and Bound Brook. The disputed 

 strip was long known as the "debatable land." 



From the preceding accounts of the grants during Dutch 

 possession, it will be seen that comparatively little was done 

 in the way of development. A settlement grew at Harlem 

 on Manhattan Island, and it is not unlikely that some of the 

 farmers occupied land on the mainland. Thus we have the 

 court records of a dispute in 1683, with the Jansen brothers 

 and Daniel Turneur as plaintiffs against Colonel Lewis Morris, 

 for four lots of meadow land at Stony Island, now Port Morris, 

 w r hich they had cultivated under previous owners of Broncks- 

 land. The plaintiffs were inhabitants of Harlem. They 

 lost their first suit, when the Jansens withdrew. Turneur 

 then entered suit alone against Colonel Morris, and was 

 finally successful in proving ownership to the disputed land. 



The oppressive rule of the Dutch irritated their Indian 

 neighbors to such a pitch that the desire of retaliation over- 

 came their fear of the Five Nations, the friends and allies of 

 the Dutch, and thrice within twenty years, in 1655, 1658, and 

 1663, the Weckquaesgeeks, the Siwanoys, and the Manhattans 

 went on the warpath with their kindred Mohegans in New 

 Jersey and Long Island. The massacres and outrages per- 



