Lord Cornbnrr for license to purchase a parcel Of unappropriated vacant land in the county of Westchester, (discovered by them) which they should l> • desirous to settle and improve, from the native Indian proprietors thereof, to be thereby Instituted to his majestie's favorable patent for the same. Endorsed Aboynean's petition In behalf of himself & Co. Head in Council, April P>, 1705. Papers about lands' in controversy between East and West Chester, determined April, 1705.

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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

The vacant lands were situated on the west side of Rattlesnake Brook in the north-west corner of the present town, and amounted to 3,308 acres. From their peculiar shape they obtained the name of the "Long Reach."

In 1696, "at a meeting of the freeholders, and commonality of the borough town of West Chester, they did give and grant unto Col. Caleb Heathcote, the liberty of the stream of Hutchinson's river, or creek, lying by the "Ten Farms," within the limits and bounds of the patent of the borough town of Westchester aforesaid, known by the name of Eastchester, for to erect a mill or mills thereon.0

Upon the 23d day of December, A. D. 1700, we find the Indians confirming the inhabitants of Eastchester in their possession.

INDIAN DEED.

Be it known unto all to whom these presents may come, or concern; whereas the inhabitants of Eastchester did formerly purchase a certain tract of land of the natives, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and six, and part of the same being not as yet satisfied, the said tract of land being butted and bounded as is hereafter expressed, viz. : east and south-cast, by a certain river commonly called Hutchinson's river, which runs in at the head of the meadows, on the west bounds of Mr.