[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 1663, the Sint Sings appear to have been without a chief.c Between the Indian village of Sin-sing and the Kitchawanck, (Croton,) the early Dutch maps place another Indian settlement called in Van der Donck's map of 1656, Kestaubuiuck; in that of Nicolaus Johannes Visschers, 1659, Kestauboiuck.^ " Along the east shores of the Tappan, says Mr. School-craft, is "the village of Kastoniuck, (a term still surviving in the opposite village of Niuck or Nyack.) The name of Nyack does not occur, continues the same authority, in records of the earliest period for the position of the present town. The word is found in an opposite Indian village of Kastoniuck."^ The first grantee, under the Indians of Ossin-ing, was Freder-ick Philipse to whom on the 24th of August, 1685, they released "all that tract or parcel of land situate, lying, and being by the northermost part of the land late purchased by Frederick Phil-ipse, and so running alongst Hudson's river to the creek or river called Ketchawan, and called by the Indians Sint Sinck, with the use of half the said creek, and from thence running up the country upon a due east line till it comes to a creek called Nep-peran, by the Christians Younckers creek, and so running alongst the said creek till it comes to the northerly bounds of the said land of Mr. Frederick Philipse, and from thence alongst the said a Alb. Rec, ii. 220. b O'Callaghan's Hist. N. N. p. 356. c Alb. Rec. xxi. 247. d See map attached to the now series of the N. Y. Hist.