A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 8
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Cowwows --^^> Pammetum Z Joshua Knapp, Jacob Pail:©, The above sales were long known and distinguished as Lame WiWs two purchases. A.D. 1681, Peter Disbrow sells his Indian purchase on Ponin-goe neck to the rest of the proprietors. In 1683, Colonel Dongan arrived at New York as governor of the province. Soon after-wards the governor and council of Connecticut, in a letter to Dongan, dated October 5th, 1683, complain of a warrant having been issued to the constables of Rye, Greenwich and iStamford, wliich towns they claim are in Connecticut, by charter and agreement of 1664. ^ Dongan, in reply, October 9, 1683,b as-serts that the Duke's patent extends to Connecticut river, and refers to the former agreement, twenty miles east of Hudson's river, which he is by no means compelled to confirm, only re-fers to the old claim for the purpose of extending as far as he can eastward of Hudson's river.