Jnnx Coak Mangawum.

A further release from the Indian proprietors, Serringoe, Magerack, Pawenack, Sackema, Wigzac, Shickham, Wasse, Waewag, Kemego, Warrea Sekis, and Geshegeopogh, occurs on the 14th of July, 1705, to George Booth, John Bond, Andreis Meyer and John Van Home, &c„ viz. : " Of all the land, swamp and meadow that the said Indians have in Westchester County, &c." From this time we hear no more of the aborginal proprietors of North Castle.

a Indian deeds, warrant of surrey. Alb. Rec. Lib. i., 130. 8ee Harrison. b S e Indian sale to Caleb Heathcote and others on the 1st of July, 1701. Richard Scnofleld was one of the proprietors of the Middle Patent.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

The eastern portion of the " Middle Patent" was confirmed by royal letters patent to Anne Bridges, Roger Mompesson and others on the 25th day of September, 1708. The patentees yielding and paying therefor yearly to the King and heirs at the Custom-house in New York, to the collector, at or upon the feast day of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, the yearly rent of £2 1 os current money of the Province.

" Anne, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c, To all to whom this shall come, sendeth greeting : Whereas by our letters patent bearing date the 2d day of March, 1705,° in the fourth 3'ear of our reign, we have given, granted, ratified and confirmed unto our loving subjects, Anne Bridges, Roger Mompesson, George Booth, William Anderson, William Bond, John Persor, Daniel Clarke, John Clapp and Lewis Perant, all that certain tract or parcel of land in the County of Westchester, beginning at a certain small brook called Cohamong brook'5 where the said brook empties itself into Mehannus River, and runs thence up the said river Mehannus southerly to the head thereof, to a beech tree standing by a small spring, and marKcd with the letters T.