[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] survives the record of an from Papirinemen down to to the Bronx. This pur-VIEW OK KINGSBRIDGE.1 chase, which made him the sole owner probably as far south as High Bridge, was effected on the 2Sth of September, 1669, the con-sideration given by him to the Indians being " 13 coats of Duffels, one-halfe anchor of Runie, 2 cans of Brandy, wine with several other small matters to ye value of 60 guilders wampum." The lands which he bought from Doughty in L66T, and other adjacent lands which he possessed, were leased by him in twenty and twenty-four acre par-cels to such persons as would clear and cultivate them, and accord-ingly became occupied in 1668-69 by a number of former Harlem residents. A little settlement sprang up which, says Edsall in his "History of Kingsbridge," was located " on the upland just across the meadow from Papirinemen." The place, from being near the " fording place," was called Fordhani. " It had the countenance and protection of 1 The building shown in the cut was Macomb's tidoiuill. II was blown down in 1S50.