THE TOWN OF BEDFORD. 



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July 24th, 1703, Catonah and Wackemane sell to Jacobus Van Cortlandt of 

 the city of New York, and Zachariah Roberts, senr., of Bedford, a certain 

 tract of upland meadow and swamp, all within ye bounds hereafter named, that 

 is to say to begin where Beaver Dam River and ye Cross River meets, and so to 

 run westwardly by Bedford's marked trees, until it comes to a black oak tree 

 marked upon a high hill, and then to run west to Cisqua River, and then down said 

 River until it runs into Muscotah River and then to keep ye south side of Muscotah 

 River until it meets the aforesaid river, and to keep the said Cross River until it 

 meets ye aforesaid Beaver Dam River, &c. The Indians acknowledge that 

 they, the Indians, have received all our pay to our full satisfaction. 



Syned sealed and delivered ) 

 in the presence of us. f 

 NATHAN CLARK, 

 JOSEPH HUNT, 

 ZACHARIAH ROBERTS. 



His 

 CATO X NAH. (L.S.) 



mark. 

 His 

 WACKE o MANE. (L.S.) 

 mark. 



His 

 MUS MTATO. 

 mark. 

 His 

 ME QUA ts COM. 

 mark. 

 His 

 CACO & PORO. 

 mark. 

 His 

 WAP clAPO. 

 mark. 

 His 

 MAN H TORO. 

 mark. 

 His 

 AN ^HOOCK. 

 mark. 



Town Kec. of Deeds vol. i. 70. 



In 1700, after the decision which left the town within the province of 

 New York, the people began to again agitate the matter of getting their 

 patent confirmed, and sent John Thomson and Zach. Roberts to New 

 York, which was then the capital, on that mission ; but nothing came of 

 it until May 14, 1702, when they empowered "Mr. Capt. Peter Mathews 

 to git our patent and privileges confermed to us the town of Bedford as 

 soon chep and easy as may be," and they promised Mathews a "grate- 

 tude of land" for his services. So the next year they gave him 300 

 "akers on the south sid of the road that goeth from bedford to hutsons 



