On the 8th day of March, 1754, Benjamin Smith, of the West Patent of North Castle, farmer, sold to Benjamin Smith of the same Patent letter for the sum of five hundred pounds " all that peace or parcel of land situate, lying and being on the aforesaid West Patent of North Castle containing one hundred and eighty acres be the same more or less, bounded as followeth : Beginning at a heap of stones at the north-east corner joining the land of Silas Worshborn, and from thence northwesterly to a waltnut tree marked, then westerly to a black oak bush, b.

a Entered In thp Hec. of Deed* of Westchester County, Lib. K», pp. 41-42, llth June, 17S7 per Richard Hatfield, clerk.

b Copied from original doc. In possession of David W. Stulih of Kensico. Witnesses, John Niles aud Maurice Sjnitu.

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then westerly to an oak tree marked, then northerly to a chestnut tree marked, then easterly to a heap of stones, then northerly to the first mentioned heap of stones ; to have and to hold, &c."a

The Smiths who have been for so long a period such extensive land owners in this town descend from Richard Smith, patentee of Smithtown, Suffolk County, Long Island. This individual came from England with Richard, his father, to Boston i» 1630; and by his first wife, Sarah, had issue, Jonathan, Obadiah, Richard, Job, Adam, Samuel, Daniel, Elizabeth and Deborah. Job, the fourth son, married Elizabeth Thompson and had issue, Job (second), Richard, Timothy, Adam, James, Joseph and Elizabeth. Joseph, son of Job (first), married Mary Aldrich, and had issue, Joseph, David, Stephen, Gershom, Gilbert, Rhuhamah, Jane, Mary and Mahitible. Joseph, son of Joseph, married Sarah Saxton ; their children were Eliphalet, Joseph, William, Daniel, Selah, Catharine.