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.

This Quit Rent wras annually paid in New York, and mention of its being levied and collected is occasionally found in the minutes of the Town meetings.6

ROYAL PATENT FOR BEDFORD.

" Whereas the general court of Connecticut on the 13th day of May in ye year of our Lord Christ, 1697, hath granted unto the proprietors, inhabitants of the town of Bedford, then within that colony, all those lauds, &c, in their abutments, viz : southerly on ye bounds of the township of Stamford, westwardly bv ye wilderness, north on ye wilderness, and eastward]}' on ye wilderness or land not laid out, every of which sides is six miles in length, which said lands have been by purchase or otherwise lawfully obtayned of the native Indian proprietors thereof, &c, and the governor and company of the said colony assembled in general council by virtue of their charter afterwards to wit, ye 21st day of May, in the ninth year of King William, did give, grant, ratify and confirm &c, unto John Miller, sen., Daniel Simpkins. Zachariah Roberts, Samuel Seeley, Jeremiah Andrews, John Westcoate, John Miller, jun., and John Holmes, jun , and the rest, &c. The aforesaid parcel of land six miles square the privileges of being one entire township by patent.