268 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Note. — There were delivered to him eight seals, viz. : — 



For those of Weeckquaesqueeck, whose chief is Sawwesach, four. 



To Kitchtawangh, whose chief is Currupin, four. 



Kiskingthing and Sint Sinck have no chiefs, but are considered to be- 

 long to those savages.* 



On the 21st of October, 1663, we find the chiefs of Weeckquaesqueeck 

 united with those of Sint Sinck and Kitchtawang, in a war with the 

 Dutch. 6 The armistice of November appears to have restored tran- 

 quility. During the summer of 1662, "Connecticut purchased of the 

 Indians, all the lands on the seaboard as far west as the North River."" 

 Thus a second time was this territory ceded by the sachems of Weec- 

 quaesqueck. Upon the confiscation of the property of the Dutch West 

 India Company, 15th of June, 1665, the New Netherlands passed to his 

 Royal Highness, James, Duke of- York; and these lands being within 

 the province of New York, formed a part of the North Riding of York- 

 shire. In consequence Connecticut ceased to hold any jurisdiction. 



The next grantee under the sachems of Weecquaesqueeck, was the 

 Hon. Frederick Philipse, of East Friesland, in Holland, who had emigra- 

 ted to New Amsterdam at an early period. The first grant to Philipse 

 occurs on the 10th of December, 1681. 



INDIAN DEED OF PEKCANTICO. 



"From the Indians Cobus, Oramaghqueer, Betthunsk, Sjoghweena-men, Wen- 

 raweghien, Saijgadrne and Togtquanduck, of all these lands beginning on the 

 north side of a creek called Bisightick, and so ranging along said river northerly 

 to the land d of the said Frederick Philipse, and thence alongst the said land, 

 north-east and by east until it comes to and meets with the creek called Neppi- 

 zan, if the said creek shall fall within that line, otherwise to extend no further 

 than the head of the creek or kill, called Pekantico, or Pueghanduck, and thence 

 southcrlv alongst said river Nippizan, if the same shall fall within the said line 

 as aforesaid, or else in a direct line from the head of the said creek called Bisigh- 

 tick, and from thence westerly to the head of the said creek Bisightick, and 

 alongst the same to the North or Hudson's river, "« &c, &c. This purchase em- 

 braced the north-west portion of the town, and a part of Mount Pleasant. It 

 was attested by 



W The mark of Wessiokenaettw, sachem of Wesquaskeck, 

 Witness the mark of Ci Clause the Indian./ 



a Alb. Rec. 



6 Alb. Rec. xviii, 44G. 



c Bancroft's Hist. U. S. ii, 312. 



d This refers to a former purchase. 



e Book of Pat. Alb. v. 5.4 



J This individual appears to have acted as interpreter upon this occasion. 



