History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 441
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] since the Old Purchase. Its boundaries are more carefully stated than those in any of the other deeds, and may be followed with accuracy at this day. It seems certain that this purchase had been the subject of nego-tiation with the Indians some years before. Even by this deed, possession was not ob-tained, nor was the matter settled until April 20, 1702, when a confirmatory deed was given., Sixth, the deed " to mr. Jacobus Van Cortlandt, of y* city and province of New York, and Zachariah Roberts, sen'r, of Bedford, a sertain track of upland medow land and swamps... to begin where Bever dam river and y* Cross River meets and so to run westwardly by Bedford's marked trees until it comes to a black oak tree marked upon a high hill, and then run west to Cisqua River, and then down said to