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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 144 (part 2)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Daniel Delevan Man-gam that he well remembers hearing his grandmother relate her personal knowledge of the Indians — of their going forth in their canoes in the mornings from the Kill-brook to the Hudson, and of their return in the evenings, after the day's fishing and hunting was over, to rest in the valley or to sleep in the great cave of the Kill, which the writer well remembers thirty-odd years ago to have been ot considerable capacity, but which has rapidly crumbled, filled and almost vanished during this period of time. The rude little diagrammatic map here presented exhibits the relative positions and number of acres of the farms pur-chased by the early settlers at the time of the manor sales, when Sing Sing was a mere name for the locality where, in time, a village was to grow. The proportions are not drawn with accuracy. The cor-poration boundary and the location of the prison are traced to make the map more readily understood. The word " do " beneath a name signifies that the person who bought the land from the Commis-sioners of Forfeitures had previously been its tenant. When such was not the case, the name of the tenant is put below that of the purchaser and inclosed in paren-