D. 1700.

Signed, sealed and delivered in The mark of X

presence of us,* Robert Bloomer, Woariatabus. ■George Copping, David Whitlock. The mark of AH Ann Hooke,

Gramatau Sachem, Porrige

a Wostcliester Kec.

THE TOWN OF EAST CHESTER.

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The same year it was resolved by the inhabitants of this town, "that Edmund Ward shall have and hold sixty acres of land, in consideration that the said Edmund Ward do pay the Indians purely, and clear the said town of, and from the said pay, when need be, &c.

The Indian purchase to be paid for as follows, viz. : -- 14 guns, 12 coats, 12 Indian kettles, 12 Indian axes, 4 adzes and 4 barrels of cider; this agreement entered into by me, Richard Shute, Recorder in Eastchester.

On the 6th of April, 1705, Patthunck, Sagamore, Hopesco alias Porrige, Anne Hook, and Elias, Indian proprietors, sold to George Booth, joiner, of the city of New York, and his associates,

"All that our right of laud which is not yet lawfully purchased, lying and being from the land which is now in dispute betwixt Westchester ana- Eastchester, and so running along by Broncks's river, to Hutchinson's river, and bounded on the north by Eastchester lync, to have and to hold, &c."

Upon the 22d of Sept., 1708, the following letters patent were issued under the great seal of the Province, to Col. William Peartree and his associates a

LONG REACH OR NEW PATENT.

"Anne, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, &c. , the Queen, defender of the faith, &c. ; whereas, it appears that our beloved cousin, Edward Viscount Cornbury, had granted to Col. William Peartree, Col. Jacobus Van Cortlandt, Joseph Van Home, Capt. John Drake, Thomas Pinckncy, Joseph Drake, Edmund Ward, Henry Fowler and Roger Barton, a grant for a tract of land in Westchester county, beginning at Hutchinson's brook, at the end of the half mile mentioned in Eastchester patent, and so up the said Hutchinson's brook, as the brook ruus to the head thereof, and from thence, north-west to Brunckses river, and so up the said Brunckses river, as the river runs, till it comes to bear with the head of Hutchinson's river, due south-east to a chestnut tree, marked, and so down the said Hutchinson's river, as the river runs, till it comes to the north-east and south-west line of Eastchester patent, and so down south-west, along the said line, to the head of Rattlesnake brook, and from thence, down the said brook, as the brook runs, to the aforementioned half mile of Eastchester patent, and from thence westerly to the above said Hutchinson's brook, where it began: know tk, that we have ratified the said grant to the above mentioned persons, reserving what has been granted to Westchester, 23d of Sept., in the seventh year of her majesty's reign, 1708 b