…They were all residents of Greenwich when the first Indian treaty was signed. Their leader was Peter Disbrow, a young, intelligent, self-reliant man. Early in the year 1660 Disbrow was in treaty with the Indians of Peningo Neck for…

…County, and was followed by renewed intercourse in trade and the purchase of several tracts of Indian lands. Two years after the treaty Governor Kieft was succeeded in office by the cele-brated Peter Stuyvesant. In July, 1649, two years…

…No armed Indian was to come within the line of settlement, and no colonist was to visit the Indian villages without a native to escort him. Hand-some presents were made by Kieft to the chiefs, for the purchase of…

…Meanwhile, doubtless anticipating this decisiou, the inhabitants of Rye, on the 22d of November, only six days before, the date of that agreement, concluded a treaty with the Indian pro-prietors of the White Plains for the purchase of that…