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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 452 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It was not unusual, even where the first grants were well defined, and their bounds traceable, and the grantors still in possession, to obtain a second or confirmatory deed.1 In this case thirty-six years had elapsed and '"This was no uncommon occurrence Ln d en I i u gs with the native*. Tlieii idea* of proprietorship were notoriously imp. it., i, and the »•!• tiers of New England often found it necessary, in order to |>acifv them, to na|mat the pnr< Iiiijh h..f t lie very name lands." — "lbiird't llintoiyof Hye." a new generation, perhaps a new dynasty, so to speak, had come into power, and the land was evidently still occupied by them.