476 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



each party above mentioned to have and to hold their allotments and divisions 

 as already laid out, and according to their deeds of John and Mrs. Richbell. 

 Sig. sealed and delivered Patthvnck. 



in the presence of us, Wapettjok. 



JOSEHH HlATT, 



Joseph Purdt. 



In the year 1700, Samuel Palmer of Mamaroneck, obtained an assign- 

 ment of the Great Middle neck, from Robert Richbell, former mort- 

 gagee under his uncle John Richbell. 



Upon the 5th of November, 1701, Ann Hook, Indian sachem, re- 

 leased to Samuel Palmer, 



"All that my parcel of land formerly called Mangopson neck, now called by 

 the name of the great neck, &c. , bounded easterly by a brook, called by name 

 Pipin's brook, which runs into the salt water creek, and so running round along 

 by the Sound, and so running up to a brook called by the name of Cedar or Pine 

 tree brook, together with a parcel of land running up said brook by a range of 

 marked trees, until this meet with the marked trees of Colonel Caleb Heathcote, 

 and from thence running by the aforesaid range of marked trees, down to the 

 said Pipin's brook, to the afore said salt water creek, with all and singular the 

 members, rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto belong] og, &c. 

 Signed, sealed and delivered The mark of Ann Hook, 



in the presence of us, 

 Beslt, 

 Benj. Collier. 



The heirs of Samuel Palmer, viz. : Obediah, Solomon, Nehemiah and 

 Sylvanus, subsequently sold the great neck, (containing three hundred 

 and twenty acres,) to Josiah Quimby. It appears that Adolph Philipse 

 and Jacobus Van Cortlandt purchased (in the lifetime of John Richbell,) 

 the fee simple of certain lands in Mamaroneck, embracing one full and 

 equal half moiety of the west neck ; the whole of which afterwards be- 

 came vested in the person of Frederick Philipse. This individual event- 

 ually claimed the whole territory north of Westchester path, lying above 

 the great neck, so that when the surveyor general, on the 18th of No- 

 vember, 1 7 14, commenced the survey of the great neck, he was stopped 

 by Philipse, when he came above Westchester path. The surveyor how- 

 ever continued the original line until he came to Bronx's river, here 

 again he was opposed by Philipse, who forbade and warned him at his 

 peril to proceed any further, as he claimed all the land beyond Bronx's 

 river by a different title. The twenty mile line north of the great neck, 

 would have carried the Richbell patent nearly to the Croton river. The 

 whole matter ultimately came before the Court of Chancery, on the 2d of 

 May, 1727.* 

 a Chancery Rec. Albany. 



