[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] mony to the fact, that the vast gorges of the Highlands and these vales once abounded with the buffalo. c Van der Donck, the patroon of Yonkers, writing in 1656, says of this animal — " Buffaloes are also tolerably plenty: these animals mostly keep towards the southwest, where few people go." "Again, it is re-marked (says the same writer) that the half of these animals have » Trumbull's Hist, of Connecticut. Philip Money, a lineal descendant of the aboriginaJ proprietors was living in this town, A. D. 1784. Absalom, the son of Philip, left i8su«, Philip and Philander, besides a daughter Sarah. b So called in the Cortlandt Manor map. « Vast quantities of arrow and spear heads arc found on the higher grounds of thli t/>wn, showing that it was once a great hunting country. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 471 disappeared and left the country."* It onglit to be remembered that, long after the discovery of this country by the Dutch in 1609, and up to a very late period, iSalem and the adjoining terri-tory was an unexplored wilderness. A small tributary of the Mutighticoos bears the Indian name of Mopus. Stephanus van Cortlandt, the first grantee under the Indians, by his last will, dated 14th of April, 1700, devised and bequeathed the whole manor of Cortlandt to his eleven children, who thus became seized in fee. In 1734 the devisees and the legal heirs of those who were dead, made a partition of the manor among themselves. By this division, North Salem fell to the share of Mr.