Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 352 (part 3)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 'Twas shortly after made manifest, that these subterfuges were destitute of truth, for said Governor then for the first time tried to buy from a certain Sachem or Indian chief, named Waspangzewan, such lands as he already occupied, and insisted were included within his limits. VVhereunto the said Indian chief not being willing, refused because, as he said, the Swedes had so long occupied the aforesaid, his lands, partly against his will and by force, 590 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. without having ever given him the least satisfaction; as said chief had himself, in presence of divers respectable persons declared both verbally and in writing to Director Stuyvesant; to whom he then presented, and in due form conveyed for the Company, as a perpetual and hereditary possession, his lands aforesaid, with their kills and superficies, so unjustly and forcibly occupied by the Swedes, situate both on the east and west shores, and on the east shore beginning from the Naricon creek, extending in a westerly direction down the river unto iMaetsingsing, and on the west shore beginning from a certain creek called Neckatoesing,