[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] belonging to the Indian grantors, and, with his previous pur chases, became the proprietor of a tract of country twenty-four miles long, and forty-eight miles broad, containing, by estima tion, over seven hundred Thousand acres, now comprising the counties of Albany, Rensselaer, and part of Columbia.1 Deeds of a later period for lands in the same vicinity are re corded in Albany county records. One is given " in the pre sence of Aepjen and Nietamozit, being among the chiefs of the 1 G1 Callaghan" s New Net her land, i, 9165 Map of Rensselaersiuyck, CfCal-122, 123, 1245 Map of Manor of Rens-lagharfs New Netherland, i, 204. sclacrsvuyck, Documentary History, in, 88 THE INDIAN TRIBES Mohikanders;" another defines the tract conveyed, as " the fast bank where the house of Machacnotas stood," and another conveys an island called " Schotack or Aepjen's island." Two immense tracts were sold to Robert Livingston, July I2th, 1683, and August loth, 1685, and subsequently included in a patent to him for the manor of Livingston. The grantors were the following " Mahican Indian owners :" Ottonowaw, a crip ple Indian; Tataemshaet, Oothoot, Maneetpoo, and two In dian women named Tamaranchquae and Wawanitsaw, and others in the deed named.1 The lands between Livingston and Van Rensselaer were taken up in small parcels, some of them without purchase.