These are in his majesties name to authorize and impower you to seize upon ye person of John Richbell of Mamaroneck, in what place soever he shall be found within this government, he being a prisoner under arrest for debt in this city, from which place he bath absented himself contrary to his engagement and that you cause him to be brought back hither to answer ye several suites of his creditors, and to abide the judgment of court therein according to law, and all officers or others whom this may concerne are to be ayding and assisting herein

Ias occasion shall require, for the doing whereof this my special warrant shall be to you and them a sufficient discharge. Given under my hand and seal at Fort James in New Yorke, this 30th day of June, 1671. Francis Lovelace.

[Endorsed] To Mr. Allard Anthony, sheriff of the city of New York, or his deputy. <= a Co. Rtc. Lib. A.

6 Co. liec Lib. A. 23S. This conveyance was to Jolin Ryder. c Alb. Assize Rec. p. 391.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTKR.

Upon the 30th of July, 1673, the province of New York surrendered to the Dutch. On this occasion Anthony Colve assumed the reins of government. His commission defined the eastern boundary of the colony to be the town of Greenwich and so running northerly, provided such line does not come within twenty miles of Hudson's river, conformable to the treaty of 1650, which was ratified by the States General February 2 2d, 1656, Mamaroneck river having been heretofore considered the boundary line, as settled the 5th of December, 1664, viz : "a line beginning on the east side of Mamaroneck river or creek, at the place where the salt water meets the fresh, at high water, and thence northwest to the line of Massachusetts."0