448 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



the sentinels were deceived. Our heroes swam the north river, (it was 

 the early part of October,) and ran all that night. The next day they 

 concealed themselves in the woods, and the following night kept on 

 their way, avoiding all habitations of note. Not knowing the state of 

 parties in the country, they skulked from one place to another until they 

 reached Dutchess county, where Concklin was known. Here, they rested 

 themselves and obtained food. Soon after the treaty of peace, Mr. Leg- 

 gett removed to New York. He died October 10th, 1843. His chil- 

 dren were Samuel, Joseph, Willam H. and Thomas, besides several 

 daughters. 



Opposite the residence of the late Edward G. Faile, Esq., on this 

 neck, a rural lane led south-west to Morrisania. It was called La- 

 Fayette's Lane, to commemorate the journey of that General, who 

 passed through it on his way to Boston. 



On the west side of the Planting Neck lies the debatable territory 

 already alluded to. 



In 1740 Lewis Morris and Isabella, his wife, conveyed to James 

 Graham, father of the latter, the following leasehold property: — 



"All that certain tract of land being part of the manor of Morrisania, situate 

 lying and being in the county of Westchester, in the Province of New York 

 aforesaid, beginning at the mouth of a small brook or run of water commonly 

 called or known by the name of Wigwam Brook, but by some falsely called 

 Sackicraliung -. it being the first brook to the westward of an isthmus or neck of 

 land known by the name Jeafferds Neck, and from the mouth of the said brook, 

 where it falls into the salt water, running as the said brook runs to the head 

 thereof, which being measured in a straight line north eight degrees thirty min- 

 utes more easterly, is forty and three chains running east, thirty-four degrees 

 northerly to Bound Brook; thence down the said Bound Brook, as it runs to 

 the mouth thereof, where it falls in a salt-water creek that runs by the house 

 of Gabriel Leggett ; then along the said creek as it runs into the Sound to the 

 eastward of the said JeafferoVs Neck; then along the Sound to the mouth of a 

 salt creek that runs up to Wigwam Brook; thence along up the said salt creek as 

 it runs to the mouth of Wigwam Brook, whence it first began, including the 

 said JeaffercTa Neck, with the hammock, meadows and marshes tliereunto adjoin- 

 ing and belonging, being bounded to the westward by the said Wigwam Brook 

 and the salt creek before mentioned that runs up to it to the northward, partly by 

 the lands of Morrisania and the salt creek that runs by (lie house of the said 

 Leggett to the eastward, partly by the said Bound Creek, and partly the salt 

 creek aforesaid that runs by the house of Leggett, and to the southward by the 

 Sound that divides Long Island, or the Island of Nassau, from Connecticut, etc. : 

 the grantee paying therefore yearly, on the 25th of March, six ears of Indian 

 corn, ic." 



James Graham was an alderman of New York in 1680 and 16S1. In 



