[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] " Tiir.sK may certify that the said Thounis Dekey, Richard Abr.nnaon, Jacob Ahniins, Sybout llarche and Sauiucll Ik-key have hereby liberty and license to purchase from the Indians, each of them, all of three hundred acres of land, etc. " Dated the nth day of March, lr.st.and signed by " Thomas I>on.;»n." Iii accordance with the license thus obtained, the six persons mentioned in the foregoing instrument, on the 21st of April, ltiSo, obtained a deetl from Sirhara, CORTLANDT. 367 Sachem of Sachus, Pannskapham, Charrish, Aske-waen, Pewineien and Sickham Indians " for all that tractor parcel of land situate, lying and being on Hudson's River, at a certain place called by the In-diana Sachus, and stretching by the north side of Mr. Stephenus Van Cortlandt's land to the said river to toother creek, and so running up said creek in several courses to a certain tree marked with ' R,' and from the said marked tree southerly by marked trees all along to another marked tree marked 'R,' west, up to the aforesaid creek which lies by said Stephenus Van Cortlandt's land." These boundaries embraced eigh-teen hundred acres. The royal patent confirming this purchase was is-sued December 28, 1685. It is commonly known as " Ryck's Patent," a contraction of " Ryck Abram-sen's Patent," by which latter title, derived from the name of one of the patentees, it is referred to in a document bearing date of April 20, 1715.