" The Governor and Council, together with ye justices of ye peace, setting in this present court of assizes, having been well and sufficiently informed in ye case in difference between the plaintiff and defendant, and that ye defendant, (who in several courts of this government hath heretofore been plaintiff in this case relating to a title to a certain parcel of land at Mamaronuck, upon ye main,) did prove his said title in those courts to the land in question, and no person nowappearing for ye plaintiff, either to prosecute or defend his claim and title, or those concerned in his pretended right to ye said land, according to ye order of ye last general court of assizes, this court doth therefore unanimously adjudge and decree, that ye title to ye said land in difference doth of right belong to the defendant."0

Nov. 1668, "John Richbell of Mamaroneck, accused Thomas Pell of gaining in a surreptitious manner, his patent of Governor Nicolls, and extending upon his lands, upwards of a mile in breadth from east to west, beside the length thereof north and south, although John Richbell has sufficiently proved his right thereto, both at several courts, and the last court of assizes held in New York."ti

a Albany Rcc. vol. XX, 127.

6 At a omrt of asslz.o hold in the city of New York, A.D. 1665, it was determined that Horseneck doth of right belong to John Richbell and his heirs. Alb. Assize Rec. 14. c Alb. Assize Rec. 172. d Alb. Book of Pat. vol. vi, 106.