[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] This tract was included in the following bounda-ries: South, a line running along the north side of the Philipse Manor, from the south side of Kightawanck Creek (Croton River), twenty miles due east to the Connecticut line; west, the Hudson River; north, a line extending from the north side of Anthony's Xose, twenty miles due east; east, the Connecticut line. He was confirmed in the possession of all this territory by a royal charter granted June 17, 1697. The his-tory of this land, known as the Van Cortlandt Manor, is given elsewhere. With the exception of two tracts of land contain-ing, together, two thousand one hundred acres, the whole of the town of Cortlandt was included in this manor. The larger of these two tracts constituted a portion of the land on which the village of Peekskill is built. License was given for its purchase by Gov-ernor Dongan, of the province of New York, as fol-lows : "BY THE UOVEBXOB. " Whereas. TliminislVkey, Richard Abrumson, Jacob Abram, Svl I Harche, Jacob Hurvhe and Samuell IVkcy have desired liberty to pur-chase, each of them, three hundred acres of land of the Indians, lying and being in the Highlands, by the north of Stephen Van Cortlandt's land, which is called by the Indians ' Wcncbees,' lying Is'tweon two creeks, against the Thunder Hill (Pundcrhurg), on the east side of the river, not yet taken up or purchased from the Indians, which may lie suitable and convenient for each of them to settle thereon to make speedy improvement.