[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In 16(35 Ponus and his eldest son, Onax, made a second agreement in regard to these same lands, and while they admitted that the first purchase-money was paid, "yet things not being clear and being very un-satisfied, they came to another agreement."'2 Just what the trouble was does not appear, but from the general tenor of the papers recorded it would seem as if the Puritans had set their houses too near the Indian planting-grounds, and in consequence the English hog damaged the red man's corn, or the cattle of the white man may have strayed over the boundary line into their pasture-land. In 1640 Ponus was the ruling sachem of the Siwanois, also known as one of the seven tribes of the coast. This chieftaincy was one of the largest of the Wappinger sub-divisions. They occupied the northern shore of the Sound from Norvvalk, twenty-four miles to the neighborhood of Hell Gate. A very large village of this chieftaincy was situated on the shores of Rye Pond.3 The res-idence of Ponus in 1640 was called Poningo.4 The English settlements along the shores of the Sound on the one side, and the Dutch on the banks of the Hudson River on theother side, naturally crowded the Indians back from the shore-lands into this interior country. And when we look upon these beautiful, though small lakes, and listen to the babbling of these crystal streams as they course their winding