[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] "May 24"1 1687 " 426 HISTORY OF WKSTCIIKSTKi: ('< H'NTY ferries established, while he seems to have been on amicable terms with the former owners. In lt>8:5 he purchased lands and meadows of the Sachems of Haverstraw and that neighborhood,1 Colonel Don-gan, the Governor of the province under James II., had, in 1686, made purchases from the Indians of lands adjacent to those bought by Van Cortlandt. These grants Dongau now sold to Van Cortlandt, who received a further confirmation of these rights from the Indian owners, and set himself to the task of fixing the boundaries of his estates. Tradition tells that he set out in his Periagua from New York, leis-urely surveying the shores from the little craft until he reached a point, now the dividing line between the counties of Westchester and Putnam. Here he disembarked, sending his Indians "a day's journey into the wilderness." This was just twenty miles, and terminated at the colony of Connecticut. This Indian track, in an exact straight line, is to-day the accepted boundary of the Manor of Cortlandt, and the north-ern boundary of the comity. He now applied for a royal charter, with the varied rights appertaining thereto.