The present ' swamp road" running south from Simeon Woolsey's was at this time laid out as a "four rod highway," but the liberal views of John Copp and his employers did not prevail with their successors and there are now but ordinary roads with occasional wide spots. There was also a quantity of rough land bounded "northerley by ye highway y1 passes under Nonames Hill, called Frederick's path," (which I take to be the road leading from the Four Corners to Mt. Kisco). The division of the "west purchase" was not fully concluded until 1738."

On the 31st of July, 1741, John Copp, of Norwalk, in the County Fairfield and Colony of Connecticut, in New England, for and in consideration of ye sum of 650 pounds, New England money bills of credit of ye old tennure, received of Moses Fountain, of Bedford, in Westchester County, in the Province of New York, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and myselfe therewith fully satisfied and contented, have given, granted, &c, viz., the following described parcels of land, being upland lying upon Bates hill, so called, containing about 8 acres, &c, bounded northerly by Richard Holmes' land, westerly by undivided land, southerly by the top or brow of said hill, and easterly by the land formerly granted to the builders of the meeting house and the land exchanged with the Town, &c.6

There was for many years after this date a great extent of common or town land, where the people pastured their cattle. It is probable that they also pastured lands not yet bought of the Indians. A brander for the town was therefore appointed and the cattle were marked with the owner's mark, and such entries as the following begin to appear on the town records : " Zachariah Roberts maketh entry of his ere marck for his marckeble creatures, namly a swalow forck on ye toop of each ere." " John Miller senr macks entry of his ere marck for his marckeble creatures namly one half penny on the under sid of the offe ere & a slit on the toop of the neer ere." These marks are found on record as lat'e as 1813.