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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 356 (part 10)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Memoir) of Pennsylvania Historical Society, III., pt L, 146, 149. — Ed. • HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : VIIL -599 After a little consultation together, the three Sachems aforesaid rose up, to wit — Mattehoorn Pemenatta and Sinquesz, and Pemenatta spoke, saying: The Swede builds and plants, indeed, on our lands, without buying them or asking us. Wherefore should we refuse you, Great Sachem, the land ? We will rather present than sell the Great Sachem the land, so that, should the Swedes again pull down the Dutch houses and drive away the people, you may not think ill of us, and we may not draw down your displeasure; which the General having promised and consented, they presented him the aforesaid land*, and the Sachems^ave him and the remaining bystanders the hand, in sign of conveyance and free gift; to wit — the land from the west point of the Minquaas Kil, where Fort Christina stands, called in their language Supeskongh, unto Boompgens hook, in their language called Neuwsings. And Pemenatta, the present and ceding proprietor, stipulates that whenever anything is the matter with his gun, it shall be repaired for noth'ing, and when he come empty among our people, they shall remember [to give] him some maize, and again a token of friendship.