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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 88

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 'J'o Kitchtawangh, whose chief is Currupin, four. Kiskingthing and Sint Sinck have do chiefs, but are consid-ered to belong to those savages. » On the 2lst of October, 1663, we find the chiefs of Weecquaes-qneeck, united with tliose of Sint Siuck and Kitchtawang, in a war with the Dutch. ^' The armistice of November appears to have restored tranquillity. During the summer of 16()2, "Connec-ticut purchased of the Indians all the lands on the seaboard as far west as the North River."c Thus a second lime was this territory ceded by the sachems of Weecquaesqneck. Upon the confiscation of the property of the Dutch West India Compa-ny, 15ih of June, 1665, the New Netherlands passed to his Royal HighnesSj James, Duke of York; and these lands being within tlie province of New York, formed a part of the North Riding of Yorkshire. In consequence, Connecticut ceased to hold any jurisdiction. The next grantee, under the sachems of Weecquaesqneeck, was the Hon. Frederick Philipse, of East Friesland, in Holland, who had emiorated to New Amsterdam at an early period. The first grant to Philipse occurs on the lOth of December, 1681. " From the Intlians Cobus, Oramaghqueer, Betthunsk, Sjoghweena-men, Wenraweghien, Saijgadme, and Togtquanduck, of all those lands beginning on the north sice of a creek called Bisightick, and so ranging along said river northerly to the landd of the said Frederick Philipse, and thence alongst the » Alb. Rec. c Bancroft's Hi.st. U. S. ii. 312. b Alb Rec. xviii.