History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 76 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The Nicolls patent describes it as " a certaine tract or parcel of land formerly in the tenure or occupation of Jonas Bronck's, commonly called by the Indians by the name of Ranackque, and by the Eng-lish Bronck's land, lying and being on the maine to the east and over against Harlem town, having a certain small creek or Kill which rans between the north east part of it and Little Barnes Island, near Hellgate, and so goes into the East River, and a greater creek or river which divides it from Manhattan Island, containing about 500 acres or 250 margon of land.1' It is an interesting his-torical reminiscence that this Bronxland tract, now the most thickly populated portion of the old County of Westchester, was not only