The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)
To all to whom these Presents shall come sendeth grating, Whereasowr Loving Subjects William Nicolh, Esq., Captains Ebenezer Wilson, David Jamison, John Harrison and Samuel Height, have by their Petition Presented unto our Trusty and well beloved Benjamin Fletcher, our Captaiue Gencrall and Governor in Cheife of our Province of New Yorke and Territoryes Depending thereon in America, &c. Prayed our grant and Corifirmacon of a certaine Tract of Land in our County of Westchester beginning at a certaine White ash Tree marked with three notches standing in the East side of Mamerraneck Jtiver and thence by marked Trees it rmms South sixty-five Degrees and thirty minutes Easterly fifty-six chains to a black oake one of the marked Trees of Joseph Budd's Purchase standing neere Westchester Path marked
a Downiriff's Landscape Gardening, p. 19", 8, 9. There is a fine specimen of this noble tree on the property of Elbert Roosevelt, Esq., I'elham.
THE TOWN OF HARRISON.
-willi three Notches and thence by the marked Trees of Joseph BudcTs Purcliase Standing ncer Westchester Path aforesaid to an Elm Tree of the West side of blind brooke and a white ash on the East side of the said brook marked with three Notches and thence by the East side of the said brooke to the head thereof to a Chesnut Tree marked with three Notches and the Letters E W and II, thence North to a whitewood Tree marked and thence by marked Tree "West to Rye Ponds thence including the said Ponds South to the head of Mamerraneck River which Rutins on the West side of Browns Point and thence by Mamerraneck River and the East Bounds of Richbells Patent to the Place where began Bounded East by blinde Brooke and vacant land North by Vacent L<md West by Mamerroncck River and South by Budd and Jones Morgans Purchase, which Reasonable request Wee being Willing to Grant, Know Yee that of our Speciall Grace Certaine knowledge and meere mocon we have given Granted.