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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 75

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] southerly two chains twenty links, thence north six degrees twenty-five min-utes, seven chains and seventy links, to the stake where the line first began, being bounded on the north-west by a certain parcel of meadow said to belong to Cornelius Claaler, on the east by Hudson's river on the south and west by the said creek, containing in all six acres three roods and eight perches, as by the return of the survey, bearing date the 19ih day of April, in the said fourth year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord, 1692, relation being thereunto had may more "fully and at large appear, all which several tracts or parcels of land lying together, and bounded and limited in manner hereafter expressed and mentione'd, (that is to say) all the said tract and parcels of land that are on the east side of Hudson's river are bounded to the northward by a creek or river commonly called by the Indians Kightowank and by the English Kno-trus river, and now belonging to Stevanus van Cortlandt, Esq., and so east-ward into the woods along the said creek or river two English miles, and from thence upon a direct east line to Bronxes river, and so running southward along the said Bronxes river as it runs until a direct west line cutleih the south side of a neck or island of land at a creek or kill called Papparinemo which divides York island from the main, and so along the said creek or kill as it runs to Hudson's river, which part of the said creek is called by the In-dians Shorackhappok, and continues dividing the said York island from the main, and so from thence to the northward alongst Hudson's river uniill it comes into the aforesaid creek or river called by the Indians Kightawank and by the English Knotrus river and the salt meadow ground on the west side of Hudson's river, are bounded and limited as here before is plainly mentioned Vol.11.