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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 63 (part 8)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] On September 6, 1682, five months later, Frederick Philipse made his third purchase of land in Green-burgh from the native Indians, " being on the east side of Hudson's River, beginning on the north side of the land belonging to the Youncker's Kill, or Nep-perhaem, at a great rock, called by the Indians Sigghes, and from thence ranging into the wood east-wardly to a creek, called by the Indians Nepperha, and from thence along the said creek northerly till you come to the eastward of the head of a creek, called by the Indians Weghqueghe, being the utmost bounds of the lands formerly bought of the Indians." This purchase included the yet unsold land lying north and west of the Nepperhan, extending thence up to the lower limit of the last purchase and across to the Hudson River. The consideration in this case, as before, was paid in blankets, shirts, guns, powder, lead, rum, etc. On June 5, 16X4, Frederick Philipse made his fourth and last purchase of the Indians in Greenburgh, and the tract thus transferred includes the lands lying east of the Xepperhan (or Saw-Mill) River and west of the Bronx.