In 1700, after the decision which left the town within the province of New York, the people began to again agitate the matter of getting their patent confirmed, and sent John Thomson and Zach. Roberts to New York, which was then the capital, on that mission ; but nothing came of it until May 14, 1702, when they empowered "Mr. Capt. Peter Mathews to git our patent and privileges confermed to us the town of Bedford as soon chep and easy as may be," and they promised Mathews a "gratetude of land" for his services. So the next year they gave him 300 "akers on the south sid of the road that goeth from bedford to hutsons

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

Riur and so by the place whair Wainpas wigwam was." Upon this the enterprising Zach. Roberts got the town to vote him a large tract near the west boundary, "on condision that he goeth to New York and ioynes with, and is helpful to Captain Peter Mathews." It appeared that Zach. Roberts helped to "git" the patent and got his land, and in "Ogust" of that year Mathews asked for and obtained 700 acres more, and in 1707, 200 more, making 1200 acres in the southwest corner of the patent, that is, in the vicinity of Mount Kisco."

The patent was granted to the inhabitants of Bedford by Queen Anne on the 8th day of April, 1704. The grantees yielding and rendering to the Crown therefore the sum of ^5 per annum.