THE TOWN OF EAST CHESTER. 21 r 



The same year it was resolved by the inhaditants of this town, " that 

 Edmund Ward shall have and hold sixty acres of land, in consideration 

 that the said Edmund Ward do pay the Indians purely, and clear the 

 said town of, and from the said pay, when need be, &c. 



The Indian purchase to be paid for as follows, viz. : — 14 guns, 12 coats, 

 12 Indian kettles, 12 Indian axes, 4 adzes and 4 barrels of cider; this 

 agreement entered into by me, Richard Shute, Recorder in Eastchester. 



On the 6th of April, 1705, Patthunck, Sagamore, Hopesco alias Por- 

 rige, Anne Hook, and Elias, Indian proprietors, sold to George Booth, 

 joiner, of the city of New York, and his associates, 



"All that our right of laud which is not yet lawfully purchased, lying and be- 

 ing from the land which is now in dispute betwixt Westchester and Eastchester, 

 and so running along by Broncks's river, to Hutchinson's river, and bounded on 

 the north by Eastchester lyne, to have and to hold, &c." 



Upon the 22d of Sept., 1708, the following letters patent were issued 

 under the great seal of the Province, to Col. William Peartree and his 

 associates.* 



LONG REACH OR NEW PATENT. 



"Anne, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, &c, the 

 Queen, defender of the faith, &c. ; whereas, it appears that our beloved cousin, 

 Edward Viscount Cornbury, had granted to Col. William Peartree, Col. Jacobus 

 Van Cortlandt, Joseph Van Home, Capt. John Drake, Thomas Pinckney, 

 Joseph Drake, Edmund Ward, Henry Fowler and Roger Barton, a grant for a 

 tract of land in Westchester county, beginning at Hutchinson's brook, at the end 

 of the half mile mentioned in Eastchester patent, and so up the said Hutchin- 

 son's brook, as the hrook runs to the head thereof, and from thence, north-west 

 to Brunckses river, and so up the said Brunckses river, as the river runs, till it 

 comes to bear with the head of Hutchinson's river, due south-east to a chestnut 

 tree, marked, and so down the said Hutchinson's river, as the river runs, till it 

 comes to the north-east and south-west line of Eastchester patent, and so down 

 south-west, along the said line, to the head of Rattlesnake brook, and from 

 thence, down the said brook, as the brook runs, to the aforementioned half mile 

 of Eastchester patent, and from thence westerly to the above said Hutchinson's 

 brook, where it began : know te, that we have ratified the said grant to the 

 above mentioned persons, reserving what has been granted to Westchester, 23d of 

 Sept., in the seventh year of her majesty's reign, 1708 & 



In 1724, the inhabitants of Eastchester appear to have held a quit-rent 

 on the patent of Jacobus Van Cortlandt, and others, &c. c 



a This individual was the Mayor of the city of New York in 1703, and for many years senior 

 warden of Trinity church, in that city. 



b Alb. Book of Pat, No. p. 380. 



e Town Rec. No. 2. 



