[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] and well beloved Colonel Peter Schuyler, president of our council for our province of New York, in council at Fort George in New York, the eleventh day of August, in the sixth year of our reign, A.l). 1720.=' In 17S6 the people of the State, (as successors of the Crown,) claimed the arrears of quit rent due upon the tract of four thousand five hundred acres, granted to Daniel Purdy, Samuel Brown and Benjamin Brown, on the 11th of August, 1720. The lands west of the Blind brook, called by the Indians Apawquammis, are to be distinguished from the rest of the township of Rye, as constituting a distinct patent. This territory wgs purchased of the native sachem Shanarocke and other Indians, by John Budd of Soulhhold, Long Island. To all Christian people, Ingains and others whom it may concern, that we whose names are hereunto subscribed, living upon Hudson's river, in Ameri-ca, That we Shanarocke, sagamore, and Rackeate, Napockheast, Tawka-heare, Nanderwhere, Tamepawcan, Rawmaquare, Puwaytahem, Mawmawy-tam, Howhoranes, Cockkenecs, Tawwayens, Altoemacke, Heathomees, all « Alb. Rec. Book of Patents, lib. viii. 407.