TH E TOWN 



OF 



EAST QiHIESTIEIR-. 



This township is situated ten miles south of White Plains, twenty 

 Tniles north of New York, one hundred and forty from the city of Albany, 

 and four east of the Hudson; bounded, north by Scarsdale, east by 

 Pelham and New Rochelle, south by West Chester, and west by Yonkers. 

 It is about seven miles long, north and south, and near two and a half 

 miles wide. On the west it is washed by the Bronx river, (Aguehung) 

 and on the east by Hutchinson's (Aqueanounck,) or East Chester creek, 

 which enters a large bay of the same name, in the south east angle of 

 this town. a 



East Chester 1 * was at first called Hutchinsons, and subsequently, "The 

 Ten Farms," an appellation derived from its ancient division among ten 

 proprietors. The present name was conferred as early as 1666. 



The lands of East Chester, were formerly included in the Indian grant 

 of 1640, whereby the Indians conveyed to the Dutch, all the territory 

 situated between the town of Greenwich and the North River. 



Upon the 14th of November, 1654, Thomas Pell obtained a second 

 grant from the aboriginal proprietors, which also embraced the present 

 township. Twelve years later we find the inhabitants of East Chester 

 confirmed in all their rights by the Mohegan Sachems, Gramatan, 

 Woariatapus, Annhooke, (alias Wampage,) and Porrige. 



The undivided lands, which were a long time in controversy between 

 the two towns of East and West Chester, appear to have been held by 



a See N. T. Gazeteer. 



b This name, Chester, says Camden, "comes plainly from the Roman Castram." Camden's 

 Brittania. 



