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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



tioned Katonah Sepotah iovis Tohmocapph, Pannaps Kakenand doe bargen and 

 hereby graut full liberty of timber and herbedge for them and theire creatures 

 upon our aincent lands for euer and doe hereby acknowledge to have received 

 full satisfaction for the land above sd' in witness of truth we have caused this 

 bill of sale to be made and hereto set our hands and seals the day and date 

 aboue written; 



signed sealed & deliver 

 ed in the presence of ioshua 

 Knap David Water- 

 bury taco his mark 

 poading — mark 



Katoonah * mark 

 rockaway || mark 

 Sepotah 1 mark 

 iovis § his mark 

 Tomopoh X mark 

 Pannaps t mark 

 Kakenand t mark 



The above bill of sale is acknowledged by the grantors the indians by their 

 seueral names i say acknowledged before me. 



Rich. Law, Comis'. 



Stanford Decembe 23, 1680. 



Stanford 23d. decembe, 16S0. 



Then payd unty ye indians specified in this within bill of sale for the purchase 

 as follows 



twelve Indian cotes 



09-0-0 





six blankets 



09-0-0 





300 gilders wampan 



16-0-0 



entered upon 



two yard red brod cloth 



25-0 



record 26 of 



six yard red coton 



1-10-0 



Feb'e 1694-5 



more by expenses 



8-01-0 



Abraham Am- 



total 



46-16-10 



bler recdr « 



This purchase of the "Hop Ground" probably included about 7,7 c 



acres, f 



a First Book of Bedford Rec., p. 129. The original is in the possession of Hon. John Jay of 

 Bedford. 



t"From an ancient memorandum found in the town record it is supposed that this first 

 purchase of the hopground. as it was called from its natural product, included about 7700 

 acres. The 'cotes,' blankets, 'brod cloth,' 'red coton.' wampum, or current funds of the 

 time, and the somewhat mysterious entry of 'more by expenses, S pounds, 1 shilling,' corre- 

 sponding perhaps, to the ' contingent expenses ' of modern committee-men, only made up the 

 moderate total of 46 pounds, lt> shillings. But real estate was not high in those days, though 

 it seems to have been looking up, for it was only hi l'',26 that the whole city and county of 

 New York was sold for twenty-four dollars."— Address of Jos. Barrett, July 4, 1S76. Re- 

 corder, Katonah, July 7. 



