Tredwell and her two daughters. Therefore on the 28 day of April we the said Samuel Willis and Solomon Ketcham begun the survey at the north west corner of Rip Van Dams Lott now the land of the said Mary Tredwell and her two daughters, and the southwest corner of the Lott of Charles Congreve, now claimed by said Elnathan Wickes, at a stake near a Large Stone at the corner being about 97 chains from Whitmans Hollow so called, near about where the path or road now goes, in a course as the Compass now points South about 8 degrees three quarters West, and 57 chains in the same course from Johnsons Southwest corner, of his land that lies in said Patent of Winacomack, Which said corner of Mary Tredwell and Company at the said Stone is about 15 rods and 2 links northward in the line from a white oak tree that Elnathan Wickes claimed for the southwest corner of said Charles Congreves Lott. And from the said corner of the stone we run the partition line between the land claimed by said Elnathan Wickes and the land of Mary Tredwell and her two daughters by a line of marked trees as the Compass now points S 75 degrees 3-4 E. 267 chains to the east end of the Patent, there to an oak tree marked for a corner between Congreves Lott and Rip Van Dam's Lot, and thence to run as the Compass points N. 8 3-4 E 20 chains. by old marked trees to another oak tree marked for a corner between Congreves Lot and Johnsons Lot, then continuing the same course 16 chains to the Southwest Branch of Nissequage river near a place of Springs called by the Indians Happogs* and agreeing with the place [*The above shows very plainly the meaning of the Indian name now spelled "Hauppauge." This name, which properly belongs and applies to the springs at the head of Nissequogue river, has been extended to a village and district some ways to the east ; and the land between the main river on the west, and the "Long Branch" on the east has always been called "Haup Described by Winecomack Patent. After we had run the lines above said we returned to the home of Elnathan Wickes, and the said Elnathan Wickes Delivered the possession and Seizin of the land that had been in dispute between them Joyning to the south side of the line of marked trees that we run, unto the said Mary Treadwell in behalf of herself and two daughters by Turf and Twigg in the presence of four witnesses, which was entered upon the release that Elnathan signed, and the witnesses subscribed, to the same Viz. Zophar Platt, Thomas Tredwell Saml Willis and Solomon Ketcham. And there was half an acre of land laid out before the house of Elnathan Wickes on the south side of the line we run, being 27 rods long and 3 rods wide Including Elnathan's well and cyder mill and press, Which said half acre was to lye Common for said widow Mary Tredwell and her daughters and their heirs of the one part and Elnathan Wickes and his heirs of the other part, Which was also laid out the 29 day of April A. D. 1768. Prepared by us. SAMUEL WILLIS, Surveyor [This is written on a piece of paper attached to the map.] NOTE.-The map and survey of the Winnecomac Patent, and many of the original papers, are now in possession of the heirs of Arbuckle, who purchased the eastern part of the tract formerly owned by Philetus Smith.] pauge neck." In a mortgage from Andrew Gibb to Richardson, in 1703, of land in Islip, the place is called "Winganheppoge or ye pleasant springs." According to Dr. William Wallace Tooker the name is originally "aup pe acke," a flooded or overflown water place. Hence springs that flow out and coyer the land.-W. S. P.] Extract of the award made by Jacamiah Brush Esq., John Stratton and Ebenezer Platt, arbitrators in a dispute between Caleb Smith Esq. of the one part and Gilbert Wickes & Benjamin Kennedy of the other, on the 9th day of March 1791. In order to find an object on the identical spot of ground, or as near as may be, where the corner of the Winnecomack Patent meets the corner of the Smithtown Patent in Whitman's Hollow (so called) We do award and order that the line which was run in the year 1736 from a path called Willets path, to Whitman's Hollow being a West course, agreeably to a survey then made by George Townsend of the tract of land laid out to Daniel Smith, on the division made among and between the Proprietors of Smithtown, and which was marked out by a range of trees marked, where it strikes the line in Whitman's Hollow which divides the town of Hunttington from the town. of Smithtown and from the Patent of Winnecomack, shall be deemed the spot where the old corner Bounds dividing Smithtown from Winnecomack formerly stood, and that from that spot or corner bounds where the said west line strikes Hunttington line, a straight and direct line shall be run to a Bunch of maple saplings standing and growing at the head of Nissaquage river, which last mentioned line so running from the said spot in Whitmans Hollow to the said Bunch of Maple saplings at the head of the river, shall forever hereafter be deemed and accounted to be division line between the said land of the said parties. But it is not the meaning of us the said Arbitrators that anything in the award should be deemed or construed to affect the property or soil right of a small gore of land ly. ing in Whitmans Hollow, which the said Caleb Smith purchased of Van Hackly Robbins, and has now in his possession, and which falls on the south of the said division line. The above is a true extract of the original award |