Editing Cold Spring, New York (section)

=== Early history ===
On July 15, 1691, Dortlandt and Sybrant secured a deed to the tract from [[Wappinger]] leaders, totaling as much as much as 17,480 acres (according to recent historical analysis)<ref name=":0" /> along the eastern bank of the Hudson River from the peak on [[Anthony's Nose (Westchester County, New York)|Anthony's Nose]] to (and including) [[Pollepel Island]], and east to a marked tree which would establish the tract's eastern border.<ref name=":0" /> This tract contained a large portion of modern-day [[Philipstown, New York|Phillipstown, NY]], including the entire the Village of Cold Spring.

While many land transactions in colonial America were disputed by settlers and natives, the original lands deeded to Dortlandt and Sybrant (containing the Village of Cold Spring) appear to have been legitimately obtained with the consent of the Wappinger. This is evidenced by  testimony from Wappinger leader [[Daniel Nimham]], who, in 1765, sought the assistance of the New York Common Council (and eventually the British Crown) in resolving land disputes over land claimed both by the heirs of [[Adolphus Philipse|Adolph Philipse]] and Wappinger natives. In this testimony, Nimham states that Wappinger ancestors had sold a tract of "Low Lands on that Part of the Peeks kill [north of modern-day Annsville Creek]... and also a pine swamp containing... a few Acres called Kichtondacongh and a piece of low Land lying Southeasterly from Kichtondacongh called Paukeminshingh."<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=J. Michael |date=Spring 2010 |title=Wappinger Kinship Associations: Daniel Nimham's Family Tree |url=https://www.hudsonrivervalley.org/documents/401021/1049258/HRVR+26.2+Smith/5622e515-f504-412f-9f3d-59ed138ee76a |journal=The Hudson River Valley Review a Journal of Regional Studies |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=82–84}}</ref> Nimham goes on to contest the sale of any land beyond this initial tract deeded by the Wappinger to Dortlandt and Sybrant, however, recognizes the initial transaction of land (including present-day Cold Spring) as legitimately ceded by the Wappinger to the Dutch.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Humphrey |first=Thomas J. |date=1998 |title="Extravagant Claims" and "Hard Labour:" Perceptions of Property in the Hudson Valley, 1751-1801 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27774165 |journal=Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies |volume=65 |pages=141–166 |jstor=27774165 |issn=0031-4528}}</ref>