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of the Point; Richardson cutting the upper, and Hunt the lower 

 end. 



It would appear that disputes soon arose between them as to 

 their occupations of the Point, and to settle the same they ap- 

 pointed four commissioners in 1669 to adjust the differences and 

 make a division of the lower end of the patented lands. This the 

 commissioners did, awarding Richardson the twenty acres so oc- 

 cupied by him, and sixteen acres of meadow, cut by him at the 

 northwest corner of Hunt's Point, and Barretto's Point on the 

 west, which last mentioned point they called in their report the 

 "Long Neck"; while they awarded to Hunt all the rest of Hunt's 

 Point, which they called the "Cornfield Neck," and certain 

 meadows at its upper end. 



The old Hunt's Point Road, which ran thru the middle 

 of the patent down and into the Point was no doubt opened first 

 at its lower end and used by Hunt and Richardson, while the old 

 Landing Road which branched from it and ran into the Barretto's 

 Point, or "Long Neck" lands, traces of which are still visible at 

 its junction with the Hunt's Point Road, was opened prior to 1700. 



About 1700 Thomas Hunt's eldest son, Thomas, acquired the 

 Richardson twenty acres at the south end, and his father's interest 

 in the rest of the Point, which was then and for many years 

 thereafter called the "Planting Neck." The Indian name was 

 Quinnahung. This property remained in this branch of the Hunt 

 family down to the middle of the last century. 



While mentioning the names of "Cornfield Neck" and "Plant- 

 ing Neck," we might incidentially call attention, as a matter of 

 historical information, to names given other parts of the Point; 

 for instance, the "Little Neck" which lay along the old Hunt's 

 Point Road, at the upper end of the Point east of the Barretto 

 Homestead. On 'this road at the upper end of the Little Neck, 

 about 250 feet north of the Eastern Boulevard, was the old gate or 

 entrance to the Hunt property on Hunt's Point. Alongside of the 

 old road, and just west of the angle where it turns toward the Hunt 

 and Leggett cemetery, is an old well nearly filled in, which was 

 probably the old well known as "Richardson's well," while on the 

 east side of the Point, near the easterly end of the Eastern Boule- 

 vard, is a district, known for 200 years as the "Fox Hills," which 

 probably derived its name from the fact that it was at one time 

 a fox haunt. 



