[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] sume the name of his victim.^ Upon the 14th of November. 1654, Thomas Pell of Fairfield, in Connecticut, obtained a grant frora the ancient Indian proprie-tors, embracing all that territory bounded on tlie east by a stream called Stoney brook or river, and so running northward as the said brook or river runs, eight English miles into the woods, thence west to Broncks's river, then down the stream of Broncks's river to a certain bend in the said river, thence by marked trees south until it reaches the tide waters of the Sound which lyeth between Long Island and the main land, together with all the kland in the sound, (fcc, &c. This grant was sigued by the sachem Ann-hoock and five other Indians. A. Dyckuian occurs as a Drake's Book of the Indians, G9. ■, b There is also a rock upon the south side of the neck bearing the sai^e name, which is said to have been a favorite lisiiing place of the above chief. 516 HISTORY OF THE witness. It was subsequently confirmed in council. ^ Thomas Pell stated before a court of assize, held in 1665, that he had