392 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



The above Indian conveyances clearly embraced a large proportion 

 (perhaps the whole) of Lewisboro. Some of these lands must have 

 subsequently reverted to the Indians ; for in 1699 the Kitchawan tribe 

 again released the same territory to Stephannus Van Cortland. This 

 individual had previously obtained a charter from the crown, erecting 

 the whole of his possession into the lordship and Manor of Cortland ; 

 by which means the northern part of this town came to be included in 

 that Manor. 



On the 8th of July, 1701, we find Catoonah, Indian Sagamore, con- 

 firming to the inhabitants of Stamford " all those lands which extend 

 westward as far as the west bounds of Bedford purchase and marked 

 trees, and by the east bounds of the same, bounded north by the south 

 side of Bedford purchase, and by the stone hills upon a straight line 

 eastward unto the upper end of the Long Pond; and, further, on an east 

 line, until it meets with a line drawn north from the upper end of Five 

 Mile River, which is the east line of our several purchases. " a 



In the next place, we find this same Catoonah, who now styles him- 

 self Sachem of the Ramapoo Indians, conveying to John Belden, and 

 others of the town of Norwalk a considerable tract of land called by 

 them Candatowa, High Land, embracing the present town of Ridge- 

 field, Conn., and much of what was formerly known as the oblong por- 

 tion of Salem. The latter included two tracts called by the Indians, 

 Mamamesquag and Harahawmis. 



To all people to whom these presents, &c,, &c, know ye yt, I, Catoonah, 

 Sachem of Ramapoo, Indians and Associates within Her Majestie's Province of 

 New York in America, for, and in consideration of ye sum of £100, &c, paid 

 by John Belden, Saml. Keeler, Senr., Mathew Seam or, James Brown, Benj. 

 "Wilson, Jos. Burchard, John Witne, Senr., Matthias Saint John, Benjamin 

 Hickock, John Beebe, Saml. Saint John, John Bouton, Joseph Keeler, Saml. 

 Smith, Jr. , Jonathan Stevens, Daniel Olmstead, Richard Olmstead, Henry Stur- 

 devant, Samuel Keeler, Jr., Joseph Bonton, Jonathan Rockwell, Edward War- 

 ring, Joseph Whitne, Daniel Hait, Thos. Hyatt, James Benedict, Joseph Cromp- 

 ton, Ebenezer Sension, Matthew Saint John, all of ye town of Norwaik in ye 

 County of Fairfield and Thomas Smith, Thomas Caufield, Samuel Smith of the 

 town of Milford in ye County of New Haven. A certain tract of land situate, 

 lying and being so esteemed within her Majesties Colony of Connecticut, afore- 

 said butted and bounded as followeth, at a rock with ye stones laid thereon that 

 lyeth upon ye west side of Norwalk river, about 20 rod northward of the cross- 

 ing or where Danbury old cart path crosseth the river, where said rock is the 

 south-east corner, and from said corner a line runneth unto Umpewange Pond 

 to a white oak tree standing by ye norwest corner of said pond, the said tree 

 being marked and stones layed about it and is the north-east corner, and from 



a Trumbull's Hist, of Conn. 



