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

In 1724, the inhabitants of Eastchester appear to have held a quit-rent on the patent of Jacobus Van Cortlandt, and others, &x.c

a This Individual was the Mayor of the city of New York In 1703, and for many years senior warden of Trinity church, In that city.

b Alb. Book of Pat. No. p. 380.

e Town Hoc No. 2.