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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 79 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] He bought additional lands successively as follows: 1081 (confirmed in 1683X, the Pocantico tract, covering the territory around Tarrytown; 1682 (confirmed in 1684), the Bissightick tract, or Irvington; 1082 (con-firmed in 1081), the Weckquaesgeck tract, or Dobbs Ferry; 1681 (con-firmed in 1081), the Nepperhan tract, stretching from the north line of the present Yonkers to the extreme northern limits of the manor, between the Sawmill and Bronx Rivers; 1085, the equal thirds of his the Spuyten Duyvil Creek way was the so-called Island of Papirinemeu,;e, while identical with' the pres-where Verveelen's ferry terminated.