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claim to the lands aforesaid, and where it being sufficiently and lawfully proved 

 that the aforesaid lauds, together with a large tract as far as Greenwich, was be- 

 fore purchased by the late Dutch government, and whatsoever part thereof was 

 not by him granted out, was of right property belonging unto his Royal High- 

 ness, some of which was granted to Thomas Richbell, &c, &c." 



In 1673, the province of New York, surrendered to the Dutch. Up- 

 on this occasion we find the inhabitants of Oost-dorp tendering their 

 submission : — 



"The deputies of Oost-dorp, alias Westchester, and adjacent hamlet of East- 

 chester, delivering their credentials, offered to submit themselves to the govern- 

 ment of their high mightinesses, and the Prince of Orange, and were commanded 

 to nominate by their inhabitants a double number of magistrates for the aforesaid 

 villages, by a majority of votes, and to present it to the Council by the first 

 opportunity, from which we shall elect three for their magistrates, viz. : two for 

 the village of Westchester, and one for Eastchester, who in his village may 

 decide all differences to the value of thirty shillings; those of higher value shall 

 be determined by the whole college, in the village of Westchester aforesaid. " a 



On the 28th of August, 1673, the lords commanders of the New 

 Netherlands, made choice of Joseph Palmer and Edward Waters as 

 Magistrates for Westchester. 6 



In 1 636, Governor Dongan issued the following letters patent under 

 the great seal of the province : 



SECOND PATENT OF WESTCHESTER. 



Thomas Dongan. Captain General, Governor-in-Chief and Vice- Admiral in all 

 the province of New York, and territories depending thereon in America, under 

 his majesty James Second, by the grace of God, king of England, Scotland, 

 France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, <fcc. to all whom these presents shall 

 come sendeth greeting: Whereas Richard Nicolls, Esq., Governor General under 

 his then royal highness, James, Duke of York and Albany, &c, now his present 

 majesty, of all his territories in America did, by a certain writing or patent, un- 

 der his hand and seal, bearing date the fifteenth day of February, In the nine- 

 teenth year of the reign of our late sovereign lord, King Charles the Second of 

 blessed memory, and in the year of our Lord God 1667, by virtue of the power 

 and authority unto him given by him, the said royal highness, now his present 

 majesty as aforesaid. Give, ratify, confirm and grant unto John Quimby, John 

 Ferris, Nicholas Bailey, William Betts, and Edward Waters as patentees for and 

 in the behalf of themselves and their associates, the freeholders and inhabitants 

 of the town of Westchester, within this government, situate, lying, and being 

 upon the main, to the east of Harlem River, which said town belongs to the 

 North Riding of Yorkshire, upon Long Island, then in the tenure and occupation 

 of several freeholders and inhabitants who had heretofore been seated on them 



a Alb. Roc. vol. xxliL 273. 

 6 Bastchester Ree. 



