2Q2 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



laud on the east side of Broncks's river, till we come to Mr. Pell's line, was 

 purchased of Maminepoe and Auu-hook for : — 



2 guuns, 2 coats, 2 shirts, 



2 kettles, 9 adzes, 1 barrel of cider, 



G bitts of money. 



DISBURSEMENTS UPdN THE INDIAN PURCHASE. 



William Barnes, 1 kettle, - - £2 2 



To expences to ye Indians, 060 



John Hint, 1 coate, 0120 



For money, 16 



To Indian supper and other expences, 3 



William Richardson, 2 shirts, 12 



John Ferris, sen, 1 coate, - 12 



To one day with the Indians, 3 



Joseph Hunt, 2 adzes, and 3s. 8d. in money, 15 



Samuel Palmer, 1 gun, 100 



Thomas Baxter, 1 gun, 120 



Joseph Hunt, 1 barrel of cider, 3 



£8 4 6 

 Robert Huestis and Thomas Baxter, 1 gun,« 



At a meeting held by the trustees of Westchester the 6th day of Feb- 

 ruary, i6of, — "Present, William Barnes, John Ferris, Joseph Palmer, 

 Samuel Palmer, Thomas Baxter, John Bayley, John Hunt, Robert Huestis 

 and Edward Collier. It was voted and agreed upon, that John Ferris, 

 Sen., and Joseph Palmer should go to Mr. Pell's and proceed to have 

 the line run between the town and him, &c., and report of their doings 

 next Tuesday." 



Fourth of September, 1694, it was agreed upon at a lawful town 

 meeting that Richardson shall havt free liberty to build or to erect a 

 mill or mills upon the stream on the great creek of the town, for and in 

 consideration of grinding of the inhabitants' corn, for the fourteenth 

 part, also liberty of cutting timber for a saw mill. Done in behalf of 

 the town, &c. 



In 1700 it was resolved at a meeting of the inhabitants, "That the 

 line between" "Thomas Pell's patent and the town of Westchester, 

 (pursuant to the grants made by Governor Nicolls,) shall be run by the 

 Surveyor General of the province of New York ; and that the standard 

 for running said line shall be pitched and placed and set in the middle 

 of Hutchinson's river at the going over of the road as far up as the tide 



o Albi Rec. gen. entries. See also Town Rec. 27th of March, 1704, Joseph Hunt was direc- 

 ted to go to the clerk of the county and see the Indian deed recorded. 



