In 1691 they made " chois of Daniell Simkings for head man for ye town of Bedford, to end any contravercy between indians and inglish accrding to the best of his skill." In 1693 the "round swamp on the south sid of Aspicung " was given to David Clason, for his four acres of "burnory land."

The names of the inhabitants, including the resident proprietors of Bedford in 1692, number thirty-one, and were as follows:

John Grum, N. Miran Clark,

Joseph Miller, John Holmes, Sr.,

Joun Holmes, Richard Ayres,

John Miller, John Holmes, Jr.,

Mrs. Wildman, Abraham Wildman,

Mr. Dunham. Isaac Dunham,

Zachariah Roberts, Jeremiah Andrews,

John Webb, Richard Wescote,

Stephen Clason, Daniel Simpkins,

Stephen Holmes, William Clark,

Abraham Ambler, John Brown,

John Miller, Jr., Jonathan Miller,

John Ambler, David Mead,

Daniel Jones, Caleb Webb,

Thomas Astor, David Clason, John Higgins.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

Upon. the 25th May, 1692, Catonah, Noname, Wappomofiam, Wenenanopoage, Chickheog and Pommeshecon, sell to Daniel Simpkins, of Bedford, a certain piece of land lying west of the bounds of Bedford, to say half a mile square, as it is already marked and laid out by the Indians, and bounded as followeth, viz.: East by the bounds of Bedford, and south by a brook coming off from the west ridge, and west and north as it is marked by the aforesaid proprietors.

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the presence of us. j PUMMESEo CHAM.

STEPHEN HOLMES, and mark. JOHN BROWN. His