THE TOWN OF BEDFORD. 1 3 



came the dreaded Mohawk, above which towers the mighty Dunden- 

 burg, in olden times abounding in game which the Indians hunted for 

 pleasure and subsistence, which, together with the beautiful valleys of 

 the Myanos and the Muscoota or Beaver Dam and Cohamong hills, 

 form a noble and extensive outline. The Myanos River (probably so 

 named after the bold and warlike Mayano Sachem of Petuquapaen, 

 killed by the celebrated Captain Daniel Patrick, Patroon of the Manor 

 of Greenwich in 1643)* for three or four miles below the village is bor- 

 dered by what is called the "River Hills," which are extremely pictur- 

 esque and romantic; in some places its rocky and wooded banks are 

 almost precipitous, one spot in particular called "Crow Rock," soon 

 after which the landscape expands and the Myanos, released from its 

 narrow bed, widens and continues its course until lost in the " Manunk- 

 etesuck," or Sound near Cos Cob. 



What had become of the descendants of the warlike Ponus does not 

 appear; but in the year 1680 the "Hop Grounds," which were situated 

 at the north end of the Stamford bounds, belonged to the Sachem 

 Katoonah and other Indians, all which is shown by the following grant, 

 under which it may be truly said the settlement of Bedford was actually 

 begun : 



Stamford, tie twenty-third day of December, one thousand, six hundred and eighty. 



Witness these presents that we whose names are under written namely Ka- 

 toonah Rockahway Sepotah Iovis Tomacoppah Kakenand, we doe for orselves 

 our heirs executors administrators and asigns and for and in behalfe of al other 

 proprietors of the land commonly caled the hopp-ground; we say we doe here- 

 by sel Alinate asigne and set ouer from us or heirs executors Administrators and 

 asignes for ever a certaine parsel of meddow and upland commonly called and 

 known by the hoppground which land lyes at the north end of Stanford bounds : 

 as it is already bounded with markt trees only the west line to be extended : 

 southward til it shall meet with a southwest line drawn from three markt white 

 oaks standing very neere together at the southeast corner of the s'd land we 

 the above named doe hereby sel Alinate and assigne and set ouer firm us 

 the land above specifyd with all the rights and privilidges thereunto be- 

 longing for euer, unto Richard Ambler Abraham Ambler Joseph Theal Daniel 

 Weed Eleazer Slawson John Wescot Ionathan Petit iohn Cross iohn Miller Nich- 

 olas Webster Eichard Ayres William Clark ionas Seeley ioseph Stevens Daniel 

 iones, Thomas Pannoyer, iohn Holms iunr, beniamin Steuens iohn green senr, 

 david waterbury Sam weed ionathan kilborn, them their heires executors ad- 

 ministrators asignes for euer quiatly to posese and injoy without molestation by 

 us or ours or any by our means or procurement, moreouer we ye above men- 



*Patrick was killed by a soldier at Capt. John Underhill's house in 1644. He married Annetje 

 Van Beyeren, and by her had one son who afterwards claimed his father's land at Green- 

 wich. 



