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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 63 (part 7)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] For this tract Frederick Philipse gave a quantity of wampum and other goods enumerated in the deed of conveyance as follows : " 10 fathom of duffils, 10 blankets, 8 guns, 7 shirts. 1 anker of rum, 25 lbs. of powder. 10 bars of lead, 2 iron pots, 5 earthen cans, 12 steels to strike fire, 2 cooper's addz. 2 half vats of beere, 70 fathom of wampum, 7 pairs of stockings, 6 howes, 12 axes, 9 kettles, 40 knives, 6 brass tobacco boxes, 6 coates, 2 drawing knives." In the following spring, April 12, 1682, he made a second purchase of lands in Greenburgh, lying south of those included in the first purchase, " ranging along Hudson River southerly to a creek or fall called by the Indians Weghquogsike, and by the Christians called Lawrence's plantation; and from the mouth of the said creek or fall upon a due east course to a creek called by the Indians Nippiran, and by the Christians Youncker's Kill." This purchase included what are now the villages of Tarrytown, Irvington and Dobbs Ferry. The consideration, as in the previous case, consisted of pots, kettles, wampum, shirts, stockings, blankets, " yearthen jugges," rum, " beere," guns, pow-der, lead, knives, "axis," "cooper's addz," etc.