On the 9th of March, 1740, Henry Franklin, of Greenwich, Conn., for the sum of ^197, sold to Benjamin Smith, of North Castle, "all that one hundred acres of land, situate, lying and being in North Castle aforesaid, within a certain patent commonly known and called by the name of Peter Ffauconiar's & Companies West Patent, &c; which said hundred acres are lying and situate on a certain ridge commonly known and called by the name of Wampises Ridge ; which said right is derived from Josiah Quinby and John Clapp, deceased, as by said deed may appear ; and originally derived from Robert Walters, Lancaster Syms, and Ffanconier and others, in companye not yet divided," &c.6

Upon the 13th of December, 1761, Edward Burling, of East Chester, and Benjamin Cornwell, of Scarsdale, farmers, for the sum of £430, did grant and sell to Benjamin Smith of the township of North Castle " a right to take up two hundred acres of land in the West Pattent of North Castle commonly called Fauconier's and Companies West Pattent, and that by virtue of a right deriving from John Cholwell who was one of the pattentees in said pattent by a deed from the executrix of the said John Cholwell bearing date the twenty-fourth day of January, 1720. Reviresance thereunto being had may apear unto Josiah Quinby late of Mamaroneck, and from the said Josiah Quinby unto Richard Cornwell by deed bairing date the sixteenth day of June, 1722, and from the said Richard Cornwell to his sons, Edward Burling and Benjamin Cornwell, by deeds bearing date the eighteenth day of May, 1750, which above said right we the said Edward Burling and Benjamin Cornwell doth covenant for ourselves, our heirs, &c, to and with the said Benjamin Smith, his heirs," &c " Doth sell, and convey, and confirm unto the said Benjamin Smith, his heirs," &c, " a certain possession of land containing two hundred acres, situate in the above said patent, and bounded as foloeth : north, by Joseph Sutton's land ; westerly, by