[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] one hundred and twen-I ty two from Albany, W^^^^ bounded north by St. James's Church, Nortli Salem. DutchcSS COUUty, CaSt by the state of Connecticut, south by South Salem, and west by Somers. Its extent east and west is about six miles, medial width four miles. Prior to the Revolution, the two towns of Upper and Lower Salem constituted the old township of Salem proper, within Cortlandt's manor. The present township was erected on the 7lh of March, 17SS. Upon the 8th en' August, A. D. 1699, Sachima Wicker, sach-em of Kightawonck and his associates sold to Stephanus van Cortlandt, all their rights as owners and proprietors in the " land lying and being v/ithin Cortlandt's manor, beginning on the south side of Kightawonck creek, and so along the said creek to a place called Kewighecock, and from thence along a creek call-ed Peppeneghek to the head thereof, and then due east to the limits of CoJi7wcticut, and from thence northerly along the lim-its of Connecticut aforesaid to the river Mattegticos ten miles, and from thence due west to the Hudson river, ifcc, &c."* "^ See Cortlandt. 470 HISTORY OF THE A portion of the Salem lands, if not the whole, may have ori-ginally belonged to the great sachem Catonah, whose terri-tory extended from the Sound as far north as Dan bury in Con-necticut; his possessions on the west appear to have been bound-ed by the western line of Bedford. " In the year 170S, John Belden, Samuel Keeler, Matthew Sey-mour, Matthias St.