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CATALOG NUMBER VC 2217 (A + B)
OBJECT NAME depositions
DATE October 14, 1784
AUTHOR Philip Verplanck
RECIPIENT
MEDIUM paper, ink
PEOPLE John Kronkheit [Kronkhight?], [Ezekie]l Griffin, William Davis, Mr
Webb (surveyor),
PLACES Philipsburgh, “Kightawonk”, Stamford, Greenwich, Teller’s Point, a
school house,
KEYWORDS name of Croton River as “Kightawonk”, heap of stones as disputed
boundary between Stamford and Greenwich,
Philip Ver Planck }
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Ag’t } in [??]-ment
Ezekil Griffin }
Deposition of John Krankhight Aged about / Seventy four years says he was Borne on the / manor of Philipsburgh, and is well Acquainted / with Kightawank that the Indians as Long as he / Can Remember Called Tellers point Kightawon / point and the water from the point Acrofs to the / South Side was Called Kightawank and Kightawant / Bought of Bay that the English people now – / Call the River Crotens but the Old people still / Call the Bay and River Kightawank
William Davis Esq’r says he is ABout 56 years of / age that he was borne at Philipsburgh that he Often — / heard the people about there Call the water between / Tellers point and the sand Beach where the palntifs / began to Run their two miles Kightawant Cove / and that the Cove was Call’d Kightawonk all the / way up as also the River was Called Kightawonk / now Crotons River –
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Deposition of —
John Krankhight and
William Davis Esq’r
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Philip Ver planck }
Others — }
Ag’t }
[Ezeil?] Origin }
John Armstron of North Castel Says / he has lived neer the Bounds Between Greenwitch / and Stamford About twenty one Years that there / is a heep of Stones in a Lane [^ where Coll’l Clintons Run from with the ?Ferry?] that he understood / was the bounds between Stamford + Greenwich / [^ and] that latterly within Seven or Eight Years — / there was a Controversery between the two towns / about their bounds, and that Mr: Webb the / Surveyor Run the line to the Westward of Said / Heep of Stones About tenn Chains a little – / to the Westward of a Scool house – but that / there is no monument nor mark that he knows / of a the End of Mr Webb’s Line but that / the heep of Stones af’d: was the Reputed Bounds / Between Stamford + Greenwitch
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John Armstrong - DepositionTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
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