cage, as of our manor of East Greenwich, in our county of Kent, within our realme of England, yielding, rendering, and paying therefor, yearly and every year henceforward, and unto our heirs, at our custom-house at New York to our collector or receiver general then for the time being, at or upon the feast day of the nativity of St. John the Baptist, the yearly rent or sum of £2 10*. current money of the province of New York, &c, this 25th day of September, in the seventh year of our reign, A.D. 1708.° Edward Cornbcky."

This town also included a large portion of " Fanconiers " or the " West Patent" granted by the Crown in 1701-2 to Robert Walters and others.

Upon the 25 th day of February, 1701, Robert Walters and his associates purchased of the native Indian Proprietors, Catonah, Wakemane and Weewanessege, a certain tract of land in the County of Westchester, bounded to the south by the East Division line between the province of New York and the colony of Connecticut ; and on the east by the other Division Line, and so along the said line until it meet with the Patent of Adolph Philips ; and so along his Southern Boundaries till it meet the Patent of the Manor of Cortlandt, and from thence by a Line that shall run upon a direct Course until it meet with the end of the first Easterly Line of twenty Miles of the said Manor of Cortlandt ; and from thence along the said Line Westerly until it meet with the Patent granted to Robert Walter and others; then southerly along the said Patent, until it meet with the Bounds of the Township of Bedford, and thence along the said Bounds till it meet with the Patent granted to Col.