THE TOWN OF CORTLANDT. 



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sons claiming, or that shall hereafter, shall or may claim, by from under them 

 or either of them, and that they shall and will upon the reasonable request and 

 demand made by the said Stephanus Van Cortlandt, give and deliver peaceable 

 and quiet possession of the said tract and parcel of land and premises, or of 

 some part thereof and in the room of the whole under such person or persons, 

 as by the said Stephanus Van Courtlandt shall be appointed to receive the same, 

 in witness whereof the said Indians Pewemind, Oskewans, Turham, Querawig- 

 hint, Siecham, Isighers, and Prackises, the Indian owners and proprietors afore- 

 said, have hereunto set their hands and seals in New York, this twenty- fourth 

 day of August, in the thirty-fifth year of his majesties reign, Anno Domini. 

 1683. 



Signed and delivered in presence 

 of us, Francis Rambolett, Gulian 

 Verplanck. 



This is the mark of Q 

 Pewemind, 



This in the marke of d 



Oskewans, 



The mark of W 



Siecham, 

 This is the mark of B 



Isighers, 

 The mark of ^ 



Prackises, 

 The mark of O 



Turham, 

 The mark of K 



Querewighnit. 



A schedule or list of goods paid by Stephanus Van Cortlandt, in his deed ex- 

 pressed. 



8 guns, 



9 blankets, 

 5 coats, 



14 fathom of Duffels, 

 14 kettles, 



40 fathoms of black "Wampum, 

 80 fathoms of white Wampum, 

 2 ankers of rum, 



5 half vats of strong beer, 



6 earthen jugs, 



12 shirts, 



50 pounds of powder, 



30 bars of lead, 



18 hatchets, 



18 hoes, 



14 knives, 



a small coat, 



6 fathom of stroud water cloth, 



6 pair of stockings, 



6 tobacco boxes. 



This purchase was afterwards confirmed to Stephanus Van Cortlandt? 

 to be holden of his majesty and his successors in common soccage ac- 

 cording to the tenure of East Greenwich in England, the patentee 

 paying yearly therefore (as a quit rent,) two bushels of good winter 

 wheat. 



The following year Thomas Dekay, Richard Abramsen, Jacob Ab- 

 ramsen, Sybout Harche, Jacob Harche and Samuel Dekay, "obtained 

 liberty and license to purchase of the Indians, (each of them,) three 

 hundred acres of land, lying and being in the high lands by the north of 



