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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 13 (part 2)

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] "JMamaranack, chief of the Indians residing on the Kicktawanc, or Croton River, Mongockonone, Pappenoharrow from the ^Veckquaesqueecks and Nochpeem, and the Wappings from Stam-ford, presented themselves in a few days (April 6, 1(344,) at Fort Amsterdam, and having pledged themselves that they should not, henceforth, commit any injury whatever on the inhabitants of New Netherland, their cattle and houses, nor show themselves, except in a canoe, before Fort Amsterdam, should the Dutch be at war with any of the Manhattan tribes, and having further pro-mised to deliver up Pacham, the chief of the Tankitekes, peace was concUided between them and the Dutch, who promised on their part, not to molest them in any way, but to allow them to cultivate their fields in peace; and as a guarantee of their sincerity, surrendered several of their prisoners.''^* Upi)n the 1st of July, 1640, Nathan Turner, in behalfof the peo-ple of Qninipiacke, (New Haven,) " bought of Ponus, sagamore of Toquams, and of Wascnssue, sagamore of Shippam, (the other Indians consenting thereto,) all the ground belonging to the said sagamores, except a piece of ground which Ponus reserved for himself and the other Indians to plant upon." This purchase em-braced all the land sixteen miles north of the Sound. The In-dian name of the tract was Rippo warns.