[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The general situation of the purchase thus made is described in the deed as follows: " Being on the east side of the Hudson River, at the entering in of the Highlands, just over against Haverstraw." Earlier in the same year (July 13, 1683) Van Cortlandt purchased from the Haverstraw Indians a tract of about fifteen hundred acres on the west side of the Hudson, " directly opposite to the promon-tory of Anthonv's Nose and north of the Dunderberg Mountain, forming the depression or valley through the upper part of which, m the Revolutionary War, Sir Henry Clinton came down and cap-tured Forts Clinton and Montgomery." The territory below Verplanck's Point, extending to the mouth of the Croton River, was originally bought from the Indians in part by one Cornelius Van Bursum, of New York City, and in part by Governor Dongan. Van Bursum was the first white owner of the peninsula of Croton Point, which in the Indian language was called by the pleasing name of Senasqua, and, before receiving its present name, had long been known as Teller's Point (also Sarah's Point), from 'william and Sarah Teller, who were early settlers upon it. Governor Dongan's lands (purchased from the Indians in 1685) em-braced all the river shore, excepting Croton Point, from the mouth of the Croton to Van Cortlandt's property, and in the interior reached to the Cedar Ponds. Both Van Bursum's and Dongan's holdings were later sold to Van Cortlandt.