57° HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



1831, married Elizabeth Purely who was born May 31st, 1749, and died 

 Dec. 22d, 1799- Their children were David, of New York, born Dec. 

 10th, 1772; Jonathan, of Miltown, New York, born February 14, 1774; 

 Roger, of New Jersey, born Aug. 20th, 1775; Josiah, of New York, 

 born May 1st, 1780; William, of New York, born May 1st, 1780; 

 Anne, born Dec. 9th, 1779, married Matthew Fogel ; Elizabeth, born 

 July, 1781, married William Baldwin; and Catharine, born Jan. 8, 

 1782, married John Fisher of White Plains. 



In 1744 Joseph Hutchins and Caleb Green were appointed "assess- 

 ors for the west side of the branch of Byram river;" "also Thomas 

 Walters for the West Patent" 



John Halleck, of North Castle, in 1755, "sold to Joseph Fowler and 

 Caleb Fowler three quarters of an acre of undivided land in North 

 Castle, within a certain Patent known and called by the name of Fau- 

 conier's West Patent, and to be in the right of Thomas Weaver, who 

 was one of the Patentees of said Patent, it being a part of a greater 

 right purchased 13th of March, 1753, of John Thomas, one of the rep- 

 resentatives of Westchester county." 



In the Secretary of State's office at Albany is a map of part of a tract 

 of land (granted by letters patent under the great seal of the colony of 

 New York, bearing date the fourteenth day of February, 170 1-2, to 

 Robert Walters and others) " which remains unsold, and contains four 

 thousand one hundred and fifty-one acres, divided into sixteen lots by 

 Charles Clinton, Jonathan Brown, and Elisha Budd, Commissioners, 

 and Nathaniel Merritt, Surveyor, appointed by virtue of an act of the 

 Lieutenant Governor, the Council, and the General Assembly of the 

 colony of New York, passed the eighth day of January, 1762, entitled 

 an act for the more effectual collecting of his Majesty's quit-rents in the 

 colony of New York, and for partition of lands in order thereto," &zc. a 



Upon the 10th of June, 1776, occurs the following public notice for 

 the sale of the above lands : 



"Whereas his late majesty, King William the Third, by letters patent under 

 the great seal of the colony of New York, bearing date the 14th day of February, 

 1701-2, and of the 13th year of his reign ; did grant and confirm unto Robert 

 Walters, Leigh Atwood, Cornelius Depeyster, Caleb Heathcote, Matthew Clark- 

 son, John Cholwell, Richard Slater, Lancaster Simes, Robert Lurting, and 

 Barne Cosens ; a certain tract of land in the County of Westchester, bounded 

 northerly by the manor of Cortlandt, easterly with Bedford line of three miles 

 square, the White Fields and Byram river ; southerly by the land of John Har- 

 rison, Rye line stretching to Byram river aforesaid, and the White Plains : and 

 westerly by Bronck'3 river, and the manor of Philipsburgh, excepting out of the 



a Field Book, Sec. of State's office. 



