THE TOWN OF EAST CHESTER. 



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under ye obedience of his royal bigbness, bis beirs and successors. Given un- 

 der my band and seal at Fort James, New York, on ye Isle of Manhattans, ye 

 nintb day of Marcb, in ye nineteenth year of ye reign of our Sovereign Lord, 

 Charles ye Second, by ye grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ire- 

 land, King, defender of ye faith, &c, &c, and in ye year of our Lord God, 

 1666. a 



"RICHAKD NICOLLS. 



" Recorded by order of ye Governor, 

 the day and year above written. 



"Matthias Nicolls, Secretary." 



Subsequently the three patentees made the following declaration of 

 trust in behalf of their associates: — 



" These may certyfie that we, viz. Phillip Pinknie, James Sbute and William 

 Haiden, having a certain track of land granted and conermed unto us by patten, 

 being granted and conermed by Collenalle Richard Nichollas, then Goavernor in 

 New Yorke, being granted to us, viz. Phillip Pinknine, James Eustis and Wil- 

 liam Hoydeff, and our associates each of the above mentioned Phillip Pinknine, 

 James Shute and William Haiden do, by these resigne up our perticulere interest 

 that we have by paten, or otherwise granted and conermed unto our associates, 

 who have owned and subscribed unto the observation of a covinante, with us 

 this provisall, that they observe all conditions of our grantes ; 2ndly, that they 

 with us, and we with them, perpetuate, our rate of interest of land, and main- 

 taine our and their enjoyments ; 3rdly, that we, with the major part of the in- 

 habitants that are associated, have the disposinge of land, but not they without 

 us — we that are associate accordingly as our names are hearen inserted : — 

 Phillip Pinkine, David Osburne, 



William Haiden. Samuel Drake, 



Johne Hoitte, John Embery, 



James Euestis, John Jackson, 



Richard Shute, Moses Jackson, 



Moses Hoitte." 



Upon the 9th of March, 1666, Robert Doughty purchased several par- 

 cels of land belonging to William Haiden, situated within the limits of 

 Eastchester Patent. In 1667 the inhabitants of this town united with 

 those of Long Island in protesting against the Duke's laws. 6 The province 

 of New York was re-taken by the Dutch on the 30th of July, 1673. 

 Upon this occasion we find the deputies of Oostdorp, alias Westchester, 

 and the adjacent hamlet of Eastchester, offering to submit themselves to 

 the government of the State General and the Prince of Orange ; in re- 

 turn for which they were commanded " to nominate, by their inhabi- 

 tants, a double number as magistrates for the aforesaid villages." Sub- 



a Book of Pat. Alb. 166T, March 9th, Deed from Governor Nicolls to Philip Pinkney, Jamea 

 Evarts and others, for a tract of land known as The Ten Farms, or Eastchester, p. 12, Land 

 .Papers, vol. i, 1C43 to 1813. 



6 Thompson's History of Long Island. 



e Eastchester Kec. 



