THE TOWN OF NORTH CASTLE. 707 



ing and being on the Great Ridge in Ffanconier's Patent, commonly so 

 called ; which tract, or parcel of land I bought of Francis Pelham. It 

 is lying in the County of Westchester in the Province of New York, 

 &c.j " " beginning at a certain heap of stones by the colony line of Con- 

 necticut, thence to run by the colony line forty chains to a red oak, 

 marked ; or a heap of stones by the said colony line ; thence to run 

 northerly a line five and twenty chains by the land of Fauconnier's as 

 yet undivided ; thence to run southward of the west forty chains, and 

 thence to run a southerly line five and twenty chains to the first men- 

 tioned heap of stones," &c. a 



On the 9th of March, 1740, Henry Franklin, of Greenwich, Conn., 

 for the sum of ^"197, sold to Benjamin Smith, of North Castle, "all 

 that one hundred acres of land, situate, lying and being in North Castle 

 aforesaid, within a certain patent commonly known and called by the 

 name of Peter Ffauconiar's & Companies West Patent, &c; which 

 said hundred acres are lying and situate on a certain ridge commonly 

 known and called by the name of Wampises Ridge ; which said right is 

 derived from Josiah Quinby and John Clapp, deceased, as by said deed 

 may appear; and originally derived from Robert Walters, Lancaster 

 Syms, and Ffanconier and others, in companye not yet divided," &c. 6 



Upon the 13th of December, 1761, Edward Burling, of East Chester, 

 and Benjamin Cornwell, of Scarsdale, farmers, for the sum of ^430, 

 did grant and sell to Benjamin Smith of the township of North Castle 

 " a right to take up two hundred acres of land in the West Pattent of 

 North Castle commonly called Fauconier's and Companies West Pattent, 

 and that by virtue of a right deriving from John Cholwell who was one 

 of the pattentees in said pattent by a deed from the executrix of the said 

 John Cholwell bearing date the twenty-fourth day of January, 1720. 

 Reviresance thereunto being had may apear unto Josiah Quinby late 

 of Mamaroneck, and from the said Josiah Quinby unto Richard Corn- 

 well by deed bairing date the sixteenth day of June, 1722, and from the 

 said Richard Cornwell to his sons, Edward Burling and Benjamin Corn- 

 well, by deeds bearing date the eighteenth day of May, 1750, which 

 above said right we the said Edward Burling and Benjamin Cornwell 

 doth covenant for ourselves, our heirs, &c, to and with the said Benja- 

 min Smith, his heirs," &c. " Doth sell, and convey, and confirm unto 

 the said Benjamin Smith, his heirs," &c, " a certain possession of land 

 containing two hundred acres, situate in the above said patent, and 

 bounded as foloeth : north, by Joseph Sutton's land ; westerly, by 



a Copied from original in possession of David W. Smith, Esq. 

 3 Ditto. 



