[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 8 HISTORY OF W ESTCH ESTER COUNTY. ernor, a purchase from the Indians, a confirmation by the Governor and a subsequent quit-claim from the Indians. In speaking of the acquisition of a piece, sometimes the date of one of these steps is given, and sometimes the date of another. This occasions confu-sion, where it is overlooked. On the 23d of December, 1(584, Governor Dongan confinned'to Philipse all the parcels he had acquired to that date. The royal charter gives many of the dates of grants and pur-chases, and twice it has the date of a confirmation. But upon some dates it is silent. The pieces of land lying between the Hudson and Saw-Mill Rivers cen-tered about the mouths or lay along the courses of small streams emptying into the Hudson at various points between the Kitchawan (Croton) River on the north, and Paperinemen (Spuyten Duyvil) on the south. They took their names, as tracts, from these streams, and so were known as " The Sintsinck tract," " The Pocautico tract," " The Bissightick tract," etc. The land between the Saw-Mill and Bronx Rivers, from the north line of Yonkers to the northernmost boundary of the subsequent Philipsburgh Manor, was purchased in one piece.