1 62 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



ders, here is land for him, and he that doth refuse to subscribe hereunto, we have 



no land for him." Hastings, July 26, 1622. The planters hands to these orders, 



Benjamin Waypen, RobEet Hutson, 



John May, John Beondish, 



Samuel Allin, Frederick Harminson. 



Thomas Apflebe." 



Aug. 11, 1662. These orders made by the purchasers of the land with our 

 names. 



Peter Disbrow, John Coe, 



Thomas Stud well. William Odell.& 



Under the royal charter obtained by the celebrated John Winthrop, 

 of King Charles, 2d May, 30th, 1662, Hastings was included in the lim- 

 its of the colony of Connecticut, and its inhabitants were required there- 

 fore to send deputies to the next meeting of the General Court, to be 

 held at Hartford ; a meeting was called, and Richard Vowles was chosen 

 by the inhabitants of Hastings ' to go to Fairfield, and there be qualified 

 as constable for the plantation ; shortly after, the settlers addressed the 

 following letter to the General Court : ' c 



From Hasting, the 1st mth. 26 : 1663. 

 Much Honored Sires: — Wee, the inhabitance of the towne of Hasting, whose 

 names are heer underwritne : being seted upon a small tract of land lying be- 

 twixt Greenwich and Westchester: which land wee have bought with our mon- 

 ey : the which : wee understand doth lye within your patent : and where as you 

 have allredy required our subjection : as his maiesties subjects, which we did will- 

 ingly and redily embrace and according to your desiouer : we sent a man to Fair- 

 field who have there taken the oathe of a Constable : we have now made choyse 

 of our nayghbar John Bud foradeputi, and sent him up to your Corte to act for 

 us, as hee shall see good : it is our desiouer: to have [some] settled way of Gov- 

 ernment amongst us : and therefore we do crave so much favor at the hands of 

 the honorable Cort : that whether they do make us a constable oraney other offe- 

 sere that they would give him povr to grant a warrant in case of need, because 

 we be som what at remote from other places : thus leaving it to your wise and 

 judicious consideration, we remayn yours to command : 



Peter Disbrow, William Odell, 



Richard Ffowls, John Brondig, 



This is ouer desier George Clere, John Jagson, 



In the name of the Philip Galpine, Thomas Studwell, his mark, 



Rest. John Coe, Walter Lancaster his mark. v ' 



a Rye Rec. Lib. A, lost since 1848. 



i Ditto. 



c Baird's, nist of Rye. 



</ Hartford Rec. vol. I, No. 66, on towns and lands. See Baird's Hist, of Rye, p. 25. 



