2S8 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



confirm and i John Quimby, John Ferris, Nicholas Bayley, William 



Betts and Edward Waters, as patentees for and on behalf of themselves and 

 their associates, ye freeholders and inhabitants of ye said town, their heirs, sue- 

 all that tract of land together with the several parcels not 

 otherwise by patent disposed of, which already have or hereafter shall be pur- 

 chased or procured for and on the behalf of ye said town whether from the 

 native Indian proprietors or others, within the bounds and limits hereafter set 

 forth and expressed (viz.), that is to say, ye western bounds of ye lands lying 

 within ye limits of ye said town, beginning at the western part of the lands com- 

 monly called Bronks' land, near or adjoining unto Harlem river, from whence 

 they extend eastward to the west part of a certain neck of land, commonly call- 

 ed Ami-hook's neck or Mr. Pell's purchase, southward they are bounded by ye 

 Sound or East River, and so runne upon a parallel line from the cast and west 

 limits north into ye woods without limitation for range of cattle or other im- 

 provements, together with all ye lands, soyles. necks and lands, river, creeks, 

 harbours, quarries, woods, meadows, pastures, marshes, waters, lakes, fishing, 

 hawking, hunting and fowling, and all other profits, commodities, endowments, 

 and heredaments to ye said land and premises within ye said bounds and lymits, 

 described and set forth belonging or in any ways appertaining, to have and to 

 holdall and singular j-c said tract and parcellsof land, heredaments and premises, 

 with their and every of their appurtenances and of every part and parcel thereof 

 to ye saixl patentees and their associates, their heirs and assignees, to the proper 

 id behoof of ye said patentees and their associates, their heirs and assignees 

 for ever. Moreover, I do hereby give, ratify confirm and grant unto the said 

 patentees and their associates, their heirs, successors and assignees, all ye rights 

 and privileges belonging to a town within this government, and that ye place of 

 their present habitation shall continue and retain the name of Westchester by 

 which name and style it shall be distinguished and known in all bargains and 

 sales, deeds, writings and records, they ye said patentees and their associates, 

 their heirs, successors and assignees, rendering and paying such duties and ac- 

 knowledgements as now arc or hereafter shall be constituted and established by 

 the laws of this government, under the obedience of his Royal Highness, his 

 heirs and suoces 



Given uude- my hand and seal, at Fort James, in New York, on the isle of 

 Manhattans, .13 February, in the l ( ,»th year of his Majesty's reign, Anno Domini, 

 1667 - RICHARD NICOLLS. 



In the Assize Records at Albany, appears the following entry: — 



; Wnereas Mr. Thomas Pell, of Ann-hookes Neck, (Pelham Neck ) late de- 

 ceased, upon pretence of purchase of several tracts of land of the Indian proprie- 

 tors within the then government and jurisdiction of the Dutch, made claims unto 

 the same as namely, the lands belonging to Westchester, East Chester and Cornell's 

 Neck, and that, after said land together with a larger tract formerly belonging to 

 the said Dutch, were by his Majesty's Letters Patent granted unto his Royal 

 Highness the Duke of York, and by the said Dutch surrendfi <ment unto 



his Royal Highness's Deputy Col. Richard Nicolls before whom said Pell did 

 personally appear the first assizes held in New York, and then to make good his 



