History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 59 (part 4)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] By the wording of the new deed of l<;r>r>, its bounds extended "sixteen miles north of the town plot of Stamford, and two miles still further north tor the pasture of their [the settlers'] cattle; also eight miles east and west." The Indian owners, upon this occasion, received as satisfaction four coats of English (doth. No settlement of the region was begun during the continuance of Dutch rule in Xew Xetherland, and thus the matter did not come prominently to the notice of Director Stuyvesant. But in the preceding year a private English purchase from the Indians was made of a district lying nearer the Dutch settlements and within the limits of the already well-established jurisdiction of the New Amsterdam authorities, which became a matter of acute irritation.