34 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Riur and so by the place whair Wainpas wigwam was." Upon this the en- 

 terprising Zach. Roberts got the town to vote him a large tract near the 

 west boundary, " on condision that he goeth to New York and ioynes 

 with, and is helpful to Captain Peter Mathews." It appeared that Zach. 

 Roberts helped to "git" the patent and got his land, and in "Ogust" 

 of that year Mathews asked for and obtained 700 acres more, and in 

 1707, 200 more, making 1200 acres in the southwest corner of the 

 patent, that is, in the vicinity of Mount Kisco. a 



The patent was granted to the inhabitants of Bedford by Queen 

 Anne on the 8th day of April, 1704. The grantees yielding and ren- 

 dering to the Crown therefore the sum of ^5 per annum. 



This Quit Rent was annually paid in New York, and mention of its 

 being levied and collected is occasionally found in the minutes of the 

 Town meetings. 6 



ROYAL PATENT FOR BEDFORD. 



"Whereas the general court of Connecticut on the 13th day of May in ye 

 year of our Lord Christ, 1697, hath granted unto the proprietors, inhabitants of 

 the town of Bedford, then within that colony, all those lands, &c, in their 

 abutments, viz : southerly on ye bounds of the township of Stamford, west- 

 wardly by ye wilderness, north on ye wilderness, and eastwardly on ye wilder- 

 ness or land not laid out, every of which sides is six miles in length, which said 

 lands have been by purchase or otherwise lawfully obtayned of the native Indian 

 proprietors thereof, &c, and the governor and company of the said colony assem- 

 bled in general council by virtue of their charter afterwards to wit, ye 21st day 

 of May, in the ninth year of King William, did give, grant, ratify and confirm 

 &c, unto John Miller, sen., Daniel Simpkins. Zachariah Roberts, Samuel 

 Seeley, Jeremiah Andrews, John Westcoate, John Miller, jun., and John Holmes, 

 jun , and the rest, &c. The aforesaid parcel of land six miles square the privi- 

 leges of being one entire township by patent. 



We have given, granted, &c, to our loving subjects, Zachariah Roberts, sen., 

 John Holmes, sen., Cornelius Seely, sen,, Zachariah Roberts, jun., Cornelius 

 Seely, jun., John Miller, jun., Jonathan Miller, John Holmes, jun., David Mil- 

 ler, Richard Holmes, Jonathan Holmes, David Holmes, Capt. Peter Mathews, 

 Col. Jacobus Van Courtlandt, Obadiah Seely, Stephen Claeson, John 

 Westcoate, jun., Richard Westcoate, Nathan Clarke, Joseph Hunt, 

 Richard Ayres, Jeremiah Andrews, Joseph Palmer, David Mead, John 

 Dibble, Daniel Jones, John Clapp, Thomas Howard and Vincent Simpkins, their 

 heirs the said tract of 23,000 acres, called ye town of Bedford, &c. Witness 

 our right trusty and right well beloved cousin, Edward Vicount Cornbury, Cap- 

 tain General and Governor in chief of our province of New York and New 

 Jersey, and ye territories and tracts of land depending on them in America 

 Admiral of the same, &c, in council at Fort Anne, New York, the 8th day of 

 April, in the third year of our reign A. D. 1704. c 



a Address of Jos. Barrett July 4, 1876. Recorder Katonaa, July T. 

 b Mr. Barrett .says it was thus paid until 17(57. 

 c Albany Book of Patents, vol. vii 271. 



