a Webster's Letters. b Alb. Rec. iil, 276.

c A second mortgage from the patentee to Stenwrck occurs on the 7th of August, lfiiS. Upon the 12th of .May, 1675, ihe patentee mortgaged to Robert Richbell, Jr., of Southampton, England, one of the three necks, called the great or middle neck; this was afterwards assigned to Samuel Palmer, July 7, 1676.

d Council Min. Alb. No. v, 47.

« Council Minutes, Alb. No. v, 68.

THE TOWN OF MAMARONECK.

The patentee must have been subsequently confirmed in his rights, as further grants were made by himself and wife the same year, to John Nelson, and in 16^4, to James and Mary Mott. In 1685, Anne Richbell conveys property in this town to Henry Disbrow, Richard Ward, John Rider, John Emerson and others.

The following document occurs among the land papers at Albany.

"Pursuant to his Excellency's warrant bearing date the 25th of October, 1G94. I repaired to Mamaroueck in order to survey the eastermost bounds of the land belonging to Mrs. Anne Riehbell, the relic of John Richbell, deceased, and run alongst the west side of the small river called Mamaroneck, crossing two branches thereof unto a certain parcel of improved land claimed by Humphrey Underbill, where the said Underbill with three others, being assisted with guns, stones and staves, did obstruct me in the execution of His Excellency's warrant aforesaid. Aug. Geauam, Surveyor. Dec. 4th, 1G94.

A.D. 1696, Anne Richbell orders that " the lot formerly belonging to the Blacktuns, containing two acres and thirty-two rods, be laid out for my son John Emerson,""