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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 111 (part 3)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The said land ad-joining to the creek or river aforesaid, lying on each side thereof, north and south 1600 treads or steps, which, at twelve feet to the rod makes 400 rods, and runs up into the country as far as the said creek or river goeth, provided always that if the said creek or river, called by the Indians Neppera, and, by the Christians the Yonkers Creek or kill, shall come w ithin that space of land of 400 rods on the south side of the aforesaid creek or river; that it shall extend no further than the said creek or river of Neppera, but the rest to be so far up in the country on each side as the said creek or river called Pocantico r* ns, being about north east.