The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)
seal of the Province of New York, bearing date the fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and one, did grant unto Robert Walter, Leigh Atwood, the said Cornelius Depeyster, Caleb Heathcote, Matthew Clarkson, John Cholwell, Richard Slater, Laucaster Symes, Robert Lurting and Bame Cosens, a certain tract of land, situate and being in the county of Westchester, bounded northerly by the manor of Courtland, easterly with Bedford line, of three miles square, the Whitcfield and Byram rivers; southerly, by the land of John Harrison, Rye line, stretching to Byram river, aforesaid, and the White Plains, and westerly by Brunk's river and the manor of Philipsburg. Excepting thereout all the lands in Richbald's Patent; as in and by the said written Letters Patents, relation being thereunto had may more fully and at large appear. In which said tract of land he, the said Cornelius Depeyster, is interested, and entitled to one-tenth part. And, whereas, his said late Majesty, King William the Third, by other Letters Patents, under the said broad seal of the said Province of New York, bearing date on or about the seventeenth day of February, and in the fourteenth year of his reign, and in the year of our Lord Christ, one thousand seven hundred and one, did, in like manner, give and grant unto Caleb Heathcote, Joseph Theale, John Horton, Joseph Purdy, Robert Wal ter, Leigh Atwood, Matthew Clarkson, Lancaster Symes, the said Cornelius Depeyster, Richard Slater, John Cholwell, Robert Lurting, and Barne Cosens, their heirs, and assigns, forever, at, and under the yearly quit-rent of one pound, seventeen shillings and six pence, payable on the twenty-fifth day of December, yearly, forever, all that other tract of land further up in the Wilderness, in the said county of Westchester and Province of New York, bearing date on or about the second day of March, in the said fourteenth year of his reign, and in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and one, did, in like manner give, and grant, unto Robert Walter, John Cholwell, Leigh Atwood and the said Cornelius Depeyster, Richard Slater, Barne Cosens, Lancaster Symes, Mathew Clarkson, Robert Lurting, Peter Mathews and Caleb Heathcote, their heirs and assigns fi rcver, at, and under the yearly quit-rent of seven poimds, fifteen shillings, payable on the Twenty-Fifth day of December, yearly, forever.