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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 64

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Indian proprietors a certain tract of land lying on the maine be-tween a certain place then called Bahonaness to the east and to the West Chester Bath to the north, and up to a river then called Moa-quanes to the west, that is to say, all the land lying between the aforesaid two rivers then called Peningoe, extending from the said Bath to the north and south to the sea or Sound." This tract, on Peningo Neck, extended over the lower part of the present Town of Bye, on the east side of Blind Brook, reaching as far north as Port Chester and bounded by a line of marked trees. Six months later (June 29, 1660) the Indian owners, thirteen in number, conveyed to Disbrow, Coe, and Stedwell, for the consider-ation of eight coats, seven shirts, and fifteen fathom of wampum, all of Manussing Island, described as " near unto the main, which is called in the Indian name Peningo." A third purchase was ef-fected by Disbrow May 22, 1661, comprising a tract lying between the Byram River and Blind Brook, " which may contain six or seven miles from the sea along the Byram River side northward." Other purchases west of Blind Brook followed, including Budd's Neck and' the neighboring islands; the West Neck, lying between Stony Brook and Mamaroneck River, and the tract above the Westchester Path and west of Blind Brook, or directly north of Budd's Neck.