[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Van der Donck places them in the Highlands on the east side of the river and south of Matteawan creek, and De Laet on the west side as occupants of the Esopus country.1 Wassenaar agrees with De Laet in locating them in the Fisher's hook.2 The territory which was inhabited by them on the Hudson may be regarded as described with sufficient accuracy in what is known as Governor Dongan's two purchases (i684~'85), the first of which extended from the Paltz tract to the Dans-kammer, and the second from Dans-kammer to Stony point. In the first, the limits of the Esopus Indians, or Warranawon-kongs^ are defined as terminating at the Dans-kammer, and in, the second the jurisdiction of what are therein called " the Murderer's kill Indians," is admitted as from the Dans-kammer to Stony point. Their western boundary cannot be so satis factorily defined. From the fact that the same names, in £art, appear as grantors of the Dongan tract, of the Cheesecock tract, and of a tract to Sir John Ashhurst,3 the latter covering sixteen miles square, commencing at a point eight miles from the Hudson on the south side of "the Murderer's kill," it may be inferred that that boundary terminated with the natural water shed of the Hudson.