THE TOWN OF EAST CHESTER. 



20C^ 



. 30^ 



Walter Lancaster, 



22 



. 23* 



Richard Shute, . 



. 44 



40 



Henry Fowler, 



25 



. 40 



John Tompkyns, 



. 24 



24 



John Wharford, 



24 



. H 



Samuel Godin, 



. 23i 



. . 251 



John Vaille, 



6J 



. 24i 



Samuel Godin, 



. H 



45 



Walter Webelly, 



8 



. 13 







the said Indians, concerning the purchase and pay of the said land, &c, 

 these three men above mentioned to be together in the design." 



" Also it is further agreed that the said Indian purchase shall be paid, 

 answerable unto every man's proportion of land in the east division 

 already laid out, &c." a 



The following land list occurs in 1682, containing the names and rates 

 of the resident freeholders : — 



Samuel Drake, 

 Nathaniel Tompkyns, 

 Capt. Will. Haiden, 

 William Pinckney, . 

 Richard Hoadley, 

 William Gray, . 

 John Pinckney, . 

 John Drake, . • . 

 Moses Hoit, . 

 John Clarke, 



At a meeting of the inhabitants of Eastchester, held December ist r 

 1683, it was resolved, that Nathaniel Tompkyns, John Drake and Rich- 

 ard Shute, should go into the woods with the Indians, "and mark out 

 certain lands within the patent of Eastchester, and go and know what 

 the said Indians do ask for the said lands, and bring report to the rest 

 of the inhabitants." 



On the 1st of March, 1686, Captain William Haiden and Moses Hoit, 

 Sen., were chosen by the inhabitants of Eastchester, to go to treat with 

 the Westchester townsmen in defence of our land, granted to us by 

 patent. 



On the 1 6th of January, 1698, occurs the following entry in the town 

 records: — "There being several inhabitants of Westchester come to in- 

 vade us (the inhabitants of Eastchester) in the property, of our lands, by 

 way of molestation, the town did inform the above said persons, that 

 they should not proceed to lay out any land, or mark any trees, or to set 

 any marks, as by sufficient testimony will appear." 



In the Secretary of State's office, at Albany, there is a map of the dis- 

 puted territory, entitled "A draft of the lands in controversy between the 

 inhabitants of Westchester and the inhabitants of Eastchester, joyn'd 

 with William Peartree, &c, surveyed and laid downe per Augustine 

 Graham, surveyor, &c." & 



a Ibid. 



b " In 1705, John Auboynean & Co., petitioned Lord Cornbnry for license to purchase a parcel 

 of unappropriated vacant land in the county of Westchester, (discovered by them) which 

 they should be desirous to settle and improve, from the native Indian proprietors thereof, to 

 be thereby instituted to his majestie's favorable patent for the same. Endorsed Aboynean's- 

 petition in behalf of himself & Co. Read in Council, April 3, 1705. Papers about lands in con- 

 troversy between East and West Chester, determined April, 1705. 



