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.

On the 13 th of March, 1700, the town sold to John Johnston one hundred acres of land for ,£56, and some months after Crosse's vineyard for £8. On the 6th of Sept. 1700, Katonah Sagamore and other

a Address of Jos. Barrett Jnly 4, 1ST6-- Recorder Katonah, July 7. 6 No. 3 of Bedford Tovru Books, p. 61.

THE TOWN OK BEDFORD.

Indians, chief proprietors of the lands about Bedford, made a conveyance confirming to the inhabitants of Bedford a purchase made twenty years before, supposing that they had received their pay to their full satisfaction for ye lands and all the timber and feed on said lands " within ye bounds, as follows, namely : to begin where Beaver Dam River and Cross River meets and so to run on ye nor-west side of a brook called miry brook, and then to run cross the hills west on ye west side of Cisqua meadow until it meets the river called Cisqua River and a great swamp, and so to run up the brook and by marked trees to the North Birum pond, and so to ye south end Cohansey, and then to a great red ash tree formerly marked by ye Indians for Bedford's southermost bounds, which stands on the west side of the west turn of Meanous River." Signed, sealed & delivered ) in the presence of us : j"