[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] therefore no loose seawant shall be current, nor be a lawful tender except that the same shall be strung. Comniercial seawant to consist of six white or three black seawants for one stuyver; the base strung seawant shall pass eight while or four black for one stuyver."a III 1658, it was reduced from six tp eight of the white, and from three to four of ihe black, for a stuyver. In IG63, seawan had got into much disrepute, and was finally discontinued in 1682. Sometime subsequent to the sale of 1640, the whole township of Bedford was emphaiically styled by the early planters Catonah's land, after the Indian chief and proprietor of that name; hence we deduce the origin of the present local term Cantiloe, which yet survives in the northern part of the town, the termination oe denoting the place of that sachem's residence. Catonah must have assumed the supremacy over these lands about 1680, for his first conveyance to the proprietors of the Hop grounds bears date 23d December of that year. He appears to have been living in 1703. What connection (or if any) existed between Catonah and his predecessor Penaghag, (the grandson of Ponus,) it is impossible to determine at this distant period. In the vicinity of Bedford both Visschers and Vander Donck in their maps of the New Netherlands, locate the Indian village of Nanichiestawack, while further south was situated that of Be-tuck-quapock.