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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 27

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] risania. « Dunlap's Hist. N. Y. vol. i. 95. «i Alb. Rec. vol. ix. ^75. • • See trial between Thomas Pel! and Charles Bridges, page 154. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. WT tract of land called " Westchester,'' of the sachem Ann-hock, alias Wampage, and other Indians.^ Upon the second of April, 1655, we find the following account of an interview between the Dutch ofiicer Van Elslandt and the English intruders. " Van Elslandt went to protest against those of Vreedlandt. Four armed men came to meet them on the creek, asking what he willed? He answered, he wished to land near the house. They told him he should not land. He rejoined, allow me to go ashore, I am cold; whereupon he sprang ashore, where he and Albert the Trumpeter were warned not to come a foot higher.