Home / Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848) / Passage

A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 67 (part 4)

Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848) 92 words View original →

[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] This fact is proved by the testimony taken before his Excellency, Richard NicoUs, the first English Gover-nor of New York, A. D, 16(34, when it was distinctly declared, " That the Indian proprietor's name, who was chief of them, was Tackareia, living at the Navisans, (the highlands of the Nevi-sink, N, J.) who acknowledged ye purchase as before described, and that he had recived satisfaction for it. Claes ye Indian having interest in a part, acknowledged to have sold and re-ceived satisfaction of Van der Donck. All the rest of ye Indians,