. Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine. es the West Shore railroad bridge by the south-bound track. Fendeyackameck is the place of lowbushes, and the name survives in the Flatbush of thepresent day. There remains one more Indian deed deserving ofnotice. It is that by which title to the lands coveredby the New Paltz patent was derived. It secured thepeaceable possession and enjoyment for all time of thethousands of acres of the Wallkill valley to the Hugue-nots in 1677, and it conveyed lands largely in the handsof their descendants of the twentieth century. It wasfully describe
. Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine. es the West Shore railroad bridge by the south-bound track. Fendeyackameck is the place of lowbushes, and the name survives in the Flatbush of thepresent day. There remains one more Indian deed deserving ofnotice. It is that by which title to the lands coveredby the New Paltz patent was derived. It secured thepeaceable possession and enjoyment for all time of thethousands of acres of the Wallkill valley to the Hugue-nots in 1677, and it conveyed lands largely in the handsof their descendants of the twentieth century. It wasfully described in OLDE ULSTER in Vol. I., pages 105-114 and need not be more than alluded to here. The name of Ponckhackie occurs very earlyFebruary 22, 1667, Kit Davis sold his land on theEsopus Kil, near the Rondout, to the east of the roadrunning till a little running kil, and extending till themountain in the interior of the country up to thePonckhachking path ; and with it his dwelling standingon the bank near the Rondout. 166 The Fort at * * * Great Shandaken. olonel Philip Van Cortlandt, com-manding the Second Regiment of TheLine, reported the raid upon FantineKill, and the massacre there, the sameafternoon upon which it occurred (seeVol. II., pages 105-112). This was in aletter to Governor George Clinton, May4th, 1779. The letter was received bythe governor at Newburgh the next morning and orderswere issued that one-fourth of each of the regiments ofColonels Hardenbergh and McClaughry march imme-diately and put themselves under the command of Col-onel John Cantine, who was at Lackawack. The whole of the Ulster frontier was in some time Clinton had had a post at the Indian and Tory raid had fallen upon PineBush, in the town of Rochester, in September, 1778,Colonel Cantine reported it and told how he had beenup to the Shandaken post to examine it at the requestof Colonel Pawling. On the 25th of September, 1778,Robert McGinnis came into the post at Great Sh
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