53§ HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



and Larchmont, with the lands lying north of them along Mamaroneck 

 river to its source and across to the Bronx. 



This tract included the whole of the present town of Scarsdale, for 

 which Col. Heathcote immediately obtained letters patent from the 

 British Crown, securing him that territory and constituting the lordship 

 or Manor of Scarsdale. But his Indian grants iucluded, also, the whole 

 of White Plains which the inhabitants of Rye had purchased from the 

 Indians in 1683, and where some of them were already settled, though, 

 no division of the lands had yet been made. This new encroachment 

 on their limits occured just at the close of their unsuccessful attempt to 

 return to the colony of Connecticut. Having failed to recover the lands 

 appropriated by Harrison, the people of Rye probably had little hope of 

 resisting these claims. Col. Heathcote, however, seems to have been 

 disposed to treat them with great fairness. In the Charter which he 

 obtained for his lands exception was made of 'ye land called White 

 Plains which is in dispute between ye said Caleb Heathcote and some of 

 ye inhabitance of ye town of Rye,' to that land the patent gives him no 

 further title than he already possesses. The following action of the in- 

 habitants refers to this matter : — 



"At a meeting held by the Properities of the White Plains purchase, Febe- 

 weary the 24, 1701-2, Hacaliah Browne and Deliverance Browne and Humphery 

 Underbill, Thomas Meritseuer, Isaac Deham, John Stokam, and Benjamin 

 Horton, are chosen a committee in the behalf of the above said Proprietors to 

 agree with Coll. Hathcoote consarning the running of a line between said Coll. 

 Hethcote's patent and said White Plains purchase as They shall see good; and 

 what line shall be mutually agreed upon betweene the said commity and Coll. 

 Hethcote the said properities do ingage for Themselves and They: heirs and 

 successors to stand and abide forever; and what else the said commitie mutually 

 agrees upon shall be held good by them and their associates for ever.'' a 



The controversy was still pending in 1702, when the Rev. Mr. Chris- 

 topher Bridge, Mr. Hacaliah Browne, Ensign John Horton, Capt. Joseph 

 Bude, and Mr. John Hoytt " are chosen to treat with the Honorable 

 ConL Caleb Hathcut, about the White Plains purchase and to make 

 returne to the Proprietors of their treat upon what termes the Hon. 

 Coll. Hathcut will agree with them to acquit all his claime to the above 

 said White Plains purchase." 6 



At the time of Col. Heathcote's death, which occurred four years 

 later, this question was still unsettled ; but it does not appear that any 

 claim upon these lands was made by the heirs to his estate. 



a Town and Proprietors Book, No. C, p. 20.— Baird's History of Rye, p. 133. 

 b Rye Rec Lib. A. 



