2 8 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



and then laid out his fifty acre tracts on each side of them. This book 

 was accompanied by a map, which cannot now be found. The two ten 

 rod highways were the one leading from S. C. Sutton's to Mt. Kisco and 

 the nearly parallel one a mile south leading over Knapp's Hill, nearly in 

 a straight course to Kisco Mountain. The present ''swamp road" run- 

 ning south from Simeon Woolsey's was at this time laid out as a "four 

 rod highway," but the liberal views of John Copp and his employers did 

 not prevail with their successors and there are now but ordinary roads 

 with occasional wide spots. There was also a quantity of rough land 

 bounded "northerley by ye highway y 4 passes under Nonames Hill, 

 called Frederick's path," (which I take to be the road leading from the 

 Four Corners to Mt. Kisco). The division of the "west purchase" was 

 not fully concluded until 1738." 



On the 31st of July, 1741, John Copp, of Norwalk, in the County 

 Fairfield and Colony of Connecticut, in New England, for and in con- 

 sideration of ye sum of 650 pounds, New England money bills of credit 

 of ye old tennure, received of Moses Fountain, of Bedford, in West- 

 chester County, in the Province of New York, the receipt whereof I do 

 hereby acknowledge and myselfe therewith fully satisfied and contented, 

 have given, granted, &c, viz., the following described parcels of land, 

 being upland lying upon Bates hill, so called, containing about 8 acres, 

 &c, bounded northerly by Richard Holmes' land, westerly by undivided 

 land, southerly by the top or brow of said hill, and easterly by the land 

 formerly granted to the builders of the meeting house and the land ex- 

 changed with the Town, &c. b 



There was for many years after this date a great extent of common 

 or town land, where the people pastured their cattle. It is probable 

 that they also pastured lands not yet bought of the Indians. A brander 

 for the town was therefore appointed and the cattle were marked with 

 the owner's mark, and such entries as the following begin to appear on 

 the.town records : " Zachariah Roberts maketh entry of his ere marck 

 for his marckeble creatures, namly a swalow forck on ye toop of each 

 ere." " John Miller senr macks entry of his ere marck for his marckeble 

 creatures namly one half penny on the under sid of the offe ere & a slit 

 on the toop of the neer ere." These marks are found on record as late 

 as 1813. 



On the 13th of March, 1700, the town sold to John Johnston one hun- 

 dred acres of land for ^56, and some months after Crosse's vine- 

 yard for £S. On the 6th of Sept. 1700, Katonah Sagamore and other 



a Address of Jos. Barrett July 4, 1876— Recorder Katonah, July 7. 

 6 No. 3 of Bedford Town Books, p. 61. 



