I give and bequeath to my son-inlaw James Mott, 14Z. and to my grandson James Mott, the son of Capt. James Mott, 15Z." &c. &c.

Elizabeth and Anne, the two devisees mentioned in the above will, were the sole issue of the patentee. Elizabeth, the eldest, married Captain James Mott, (son of Adam Mott.) Anne married John Emerson. The patentee left one brother, Robert Richbell of Southampton, in England, father of Robert Richbell, who succeeded his uncle in a portion of the Mamaroneck estates.6

A. D. 1700, the Hon. Caleb Heathcote became legally seized in fee of the greatest portion of the eastermost neck, together with other lands, having in 1696, obtained a patent right from Mrs. Anne Richbell, to purchase lands which were already included in her husband's sale of 1660.

On the 21st day of March, 1701, King William III. by letters patent, granted and confirmed unto Caleb Heathcote his extensive purchases and erected them into the " Lordship and Manor of Scarsdale." This Royal Charter is given of length under the Town of Scarsdale in this work, and is recorded in the Secretary of State's office at Albany."

The " Manor of Scarsdale " included the present towns of Mamaroa Council Mtn. Rec. No. v, 104.

6 For a continuation of this fanillv, see pedigree.

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THE TOWN OF MAMARONECK. 475

neck and Scarsdale, excepting only some small parcels in and near the village of Mamaroneck and extended from Long Island Sound to the Bronx river. It was holden of the King in free and common soccage, its land yielding and rendering therefor annually upon the festival of the Nativity, five pounds current money of New York, &c.