724 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



seal of the Province of New York, bearing date the fourteenth day of Febru- 

 ary, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and one, did grant un- 

 to Robert Walter, Leigh Atwood, the said Cornelius Depeyster, Caleb Heathcote, 

 Matthew Clarkson, John Cholwell, Richard Slater, Lancaster Symes, Robert 

 Lurting and Bame Cosens, a certain tract of land, situate and being in the coun- 

 ty of Westchester, bounded northerly by the manor of Courtland, easterly with 

 Bedford line, of three miles square, the Whitefieldand Byram rivers: southerly, 

 by the land of John Harrison, Rye line, stretching to Bj'ram river, aforesaid, 

 and the White Plains, and westerly by Brunk's river and the manor of Philips- 

 burg. Excepting thereout all the lands in Richbald's Patent; as in and by the 

 said written Letters Patents, relation being thereunto had may more fully - 

 large appear. In which said tract of land he, the said Cornelius Depeyster, is in- 

 terested, and entitled to one-tenth part. And, whereas, his said late Majesty, 

 King William the Third, by other Letters Patents, under the said broad seal of 

 the said Province of New York, bearing date on or about the seventeenth clay of 

 February, and iu the fourteenth year of his reign, and in the year of our Lord 

 Christ, one thousand seven hundred and one, did, in like manner, give and grant 

 unto Caleb Heathcote, Joseph Theale, John Horton, Joseph Purdy, Robert Wul 

 ter, Leigh Atwood, Matthew Clarkson, Lancaster Symes, the said Cornelius De- 

 peyster, Richard Slater, John Cholwell, Robert Lurting, and Barne Cosens, their 

 heirs, and assigns, forever, at, and under the yearly quit-rent of one pound, sev- 

 enteen shillings and six pence, payable on the twenty-fifth day of December, 

 yearly, forever, all that other tract of land further up in the Wilderness, in the 

 said county of Westchester and Province of New York, bearing date on or about 

 the second day of March, in the said fourteenth year of his reign, and in the 

 year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and one, did, in like man- 

 ner give, and grant, unto Robert Walter, John Cholwell, Leigh Atwood and the 

 said Cornelius Depeyster, Richard Slater, Barne Cosens, Lancaster Symes, Ma- 

 thew Clarkson, Robert Lurting, Peter Mathews and Caleb Heathcote, their 

 heirs and assigns fi rever, at, and under the yearly quit-rent of seven pounds, fif- 

 teen shillings, payable on the Twenty -Fifth day of December, yearly, forever. 

 Ail that other part of land situate, lying and being further up in the said Wilder- 

 ness, in the aforesaid county of Westchester, and Province of New York, afore- 

 said, bounded to the south by the Division line between the said Province of New 

 York and the said Colony of Connecticut, and so along the said line until it 

 meets with the patent of Adolph Philipse, and so along his Southern bounds un- 

 til it meets with the manor of Courtland, and from thence by a line that shall run 

 upon a direct course until it meets with the first Easterly line of Twenty miles of 

 the said Manor of Courtland, and from thence along the said line Westerly until 

 it meets with a patent granted unto Robert Walter and others, thence Southerly 

 along the said patent until it meets with the bounds of the Township of Bedford, 

 and thence round along the said aforesaid bounds until it meets with the Patent 

 granted to Colonel Caleb Heathcoate and others, and along the bounds of the said 

 Patent unto the Colony line where it first begun ; and, also, all that small tract of 

 land beginning Westerly at a great rock on the Westmost side at the Southwest 

 end of a ridge known by the name of Rithbell, or Horse-ridge, and from thence 

 Northwest and lw North to Brunk's river, Easterly beginning at a m rked tree at 

 the Eastmost side on the Southwest end of the said Ridge, and thence North to 



