The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)
Phillip Pinknine, James Euslis and William Hoydeff, and our associates each of the above mentioned Phillip Pinknine, James Shute and William Haiden do, by these resigne up our perticulere interest that we have by paten, or otherwise granted and conermed unto our associates, who have owned and subscribed unto the observation of a coviuante, with us this provisall, that they observe all conditions of our grantes ; 2ndly, that they with us, and we with them, perpetuate, our rate of interest of land, and maintaine our and their enjoyments ; 3rdly, that we, with the major part of the inhabitants that are associated, have the disposinge of laud, but not they without us -- we that are associate accordingly as our names are hearen inserted : --
Upon the 9th of March, 1666, Robert Doughty purchased several parcels of land belonging to William Haiden, situated within the limits of Eastchester Patent. In 1667 the inhabitants of this town united with those of Long Island in protesting against the Duke's laws.6 The province of New York was re-taken by the Dutch on the 30th of July, 1673. Upon this occasion we find the deputies of Oostdorp, alias Westchester, and the adjacent hamlet of Eastchester, offering to submit themselves to the government of the State General and the Prince of Orange ; in return for which they were commanded " to nominate, by their inhabitants, a double number as magistrates for the aforesaid villages."" Suba Book of Pat Alb. 1M 17, March Oth, Deed from Governor Nicolls to Philip Pinkney, James Evans and others, for a tract of land known as The Ten Farms, or Eastchester, p. 12, Land Papers, vol. i, lfttH to 1813.