A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 23
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 20 tobacco boxes, 200 needles, 2 swords, 8 coats, 4 half vats of beer. Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Brant Schuyler, Levinius V. Schayck, George Brewerton. The mark of kj Weskhewen Sachem, The mark of X Tupaine, The mark of N Amterone, The mark of ?3 Shaphame.'* » Used in perforating wampum. b Book of Pat. Alb. vol. v. 87. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 41 A third sale from Sirhain, Indian sachem of Sachus, and other Indians, occurs on the 25th of June, 16S5, to Jacobus De-kay, <fcc. " Of all that tract or parcel of land, situate and being on the east side of Hud-son's River, commonly called and known by the name of Wishqua, beginning at a great creek, called by the Indians John Peake's creek, it being in the mouth of the west side of the sqid creek and so running up along the said riv-er to another small creek and fall, including all fresh and salt meadows within the said bounds, together with all, &c., &c., for the value of four hundred guild-ers, seawant."a The Indian territory of Sachus was subsequently confirmed