156 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



ROYAL PATENT FOR BUDD'S NECK. 

 George, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, De- 

 fend* r of the faith, Sue To all to whom these presents shall conic, mndvih greet- 

 ing, whereas our loving Bubjects Joseph Budd, John Hoight and Daniel Purdy, in- 

 habitants of the Toicib of Rye, in the County of West Cluster, by their petition 

 presented to our trusty and well beloved Colonel Peter Schuyler, President of the 

 I \ for our Province of New York, Have set forth that in Virtue of a pur 



chase made by John Budd in his life time, the Father of the aforesaid Joseph 

 Budd by Lycence from the Government of Connecticut Colony, bearing Date the 

 Eighth Day of November, One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty, of a certain 

 Tract or pureed of land in the Bounds of the Township of R je, in the County of 

 Westchi stei; then call:' 1 Apawguamvmis, bounded East by a River then called 

 Maekguams River, Southerly by the Sea or Sound against Long Island, now 

 called th • island of Nassau. Westerly by a River then called Pochoteswake Ricer, 

 and Northerly by .Marked Trees near "West Chester Path, that the said petitioners 

 "with Diverse others of our Loving subjects, inhabitants of the same Township of 

 Eye, who have and do hold and enjoy the same Tract of Land by from or under 

 the same John Budd, and his heirs and assigns have cultivated and improved the 

 same at their great charge, and \* ith great labor and industry, and have been and 

 are now hitherto peaceable and Quietly possessed thereof, praying to have the 

 same confirmed to them by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Province 

 of New York, in the manner as is hereafter Described (that is to say; all that 

 Tract or Neck of Land in the Township of Bye, in the County of Westcliester, in 

 the Province of New York now called Budd's purcliase, Beginning at a certain 

 grist Mill, called Joseyh Lyon's Mill, standing on a Brook called Blind Brook, 

 thence up the stream of said Brook including the said Mill until it meets withal 

 small Brook called or known by the name of Bound Brook, thence on a North 

 W( St course until it meets with Westchester Old Road, then Southwesterly 

 along the said Road as it runs to a White Oak Tree Marked on two sides stand- 

 ing on the West side of a certain brook known by the name of Stony Brook 

 which White Oak Tree is the South West corner of a certain patent called LTur- 

 Patent thence from said White Oak Tree on a North West course to an 

 Ash Tree Marked on two sides standing on the East side of Mamarroneck River 

 close by the edge of said River as it runs to the place where the said Mamarron- 

 eck River emptys itself into Mamarroneck Harbour or Creek thence Southerly 

 to where said Mamarroneck Harbour or Creek falls into the Sound thence East- 

 erly along the Sound untill it meets with a certain Creek called Mill Creek on the 

 head whereof the aforesaid Grist Mill of Joseph Byon is standing thence up the 

 channell of said Creek as it runs until it meets the aforesaid Grist Mill where it 

 first begun, Bounded Easterly by Blind Brook and Mill Creek Northerly by 

 Westchester Road and Harrisons Patent Westerly by Mamarroneck River and 

 Harbour and Southerly by the Sound together with a small Island called Hen 

 Island lying in the Sound over against the said lands about a quarter of a Mile 

 from the Main containing in the whole Main land and Island fifteen hundred and 

 sixty acres, To Hold to them and their heirs and assigns forever, but to and for 

 the use and uses following and to no other use whatsoever (that is to say) as for 

 and concerning such Tracts of land and hereditaments part of the afore recited 

 Tract of land and Island whereof they the said Joseph Budd, John Hoight and 



