THE TOWN OF NORTH CASTLE. 705 



cage, as of our manor of East Greenwich, in our county of Kent, within our 

 realme of England, yielding, rendering, and paying therefor, yearly and every 

 year henceforward, and unto our heirs, at our custom-house at New York to our 

 collector or receiver general then for the time being, at or upon the feast day of 

 the nativity of St. John the Baptist, the yearly rent or sum. of £2 10s. current 

 money of the province of New York, &c, this 25th day of September, in the 

 seventh year of our reign, A.D. 1708. a Edward Cornbttky." 



This town also included a large portion of " Fanconiers " or the 

 " West Patent" granted by the Crown in 1701-2 to Robert Walters and 

 others. 



Upon the 25 th day of February, 1701, Robert Walters and his asso- 

 ciates purchased of the native Indian Proprietors, Catonah, Wakemane 

 and Weewanessege, a certain tract of land in the County of Westchester, 

 bounded to the south by the East Division line between the province of 

 New York and the colony of Connecticut ; and on the east by the other 

 Division Line, and so along the said line until it meet with the Patent of 

 Adolph Philips ; and so along his Southern Boundaries till it meet the 

 Patent of the Manor of Cortlandt, and from thence by a Line that shall 

 run upon a direct Course until it meet with the end of the first Easterly 

 Line* of twenty Miles of the said Manor of Cortlandt ; and from thence 

 along the said Line Westerly until it meet with the Patent granted to 

 Robert Walter and others ; then southerly along the said Patent, until it 

 meet with the Bounds of the Township of Bedford, and thence along the 

 said Bounds till it meet with the Patent granted to Col. Caleb Heath- 

 cote and others ; and along the bounds of the said Patent unto the Col- 

 ony line;" "as also a small Tract of Land beginning Westerly at a great 

 Rock on the Westermost side at the Southermost End of a Ridge known 

 by the name of Ruhbel or Horse Ridge ; and from thence North- West 

 and by North to Bronckx River, Easterly, beginning at a marked Tree at 

 the Eastermost side on the Southermost end of the said Ridge ; and thence 

 North to Bronckx River; which Tract of Land was by the said Caleb 

 Heath cote purchased of the native Indian Proprietors ; the said two Tracts 

 containing by Estimation about 62,000 acres of profitable land." 



William the Third, by his Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the 

 Colony of New York, bearing date the second day of March, in the 

 14th year of his reign (1701) did grant and confirm unto Robert Wal- 

 ters, John Cholwell, Leigh Atwood, Cornelius Depeyster, Richard 

 Slater, Barne Cosens, Lancaster Symes, Matthew Clarkson, Robert 

 Lurting, Peter Matthews and Caleb Heathcote, the two before-men- 

 tioned tracts of land ; the patentees yielding and paying therefor to the 

 King, his heirs and successors, or governors appointed by him, on the 

 Feast day of the Nativity of our Blessed Lord, the annual quit-rent of 

 seven pounds, fifteen shillings. 



a Book of Pat. Alb. No. vii. 191, compared with original in possession o£ David W. Smith. 

 Kensico. 



