The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)
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. All that other part of land situate, lying and being further up in the said Wilderness, in the aforesaid county of Westchester, and Province of New York, aforesaid, bounded to the south by the Division line between the said Province of New York and the said Colony of Connecticut, and so along the said line until it meets with the patent of Adolph Philipse, and so along his Southern bounds until it meets with the mauor of Courtland, and from thence by aline that shall urn upon a direct course until it meets with the first Easterly line of Twenty miles of the said Manor of Courtland, and from thence along the said line Westerly until it meets with a patent granted unto Robert Walter and others, thence Southerly along the said patent until it meets with the bounds of the Township of Bedford, and thence round along the said aforesaid bounds until it meets with the Patent granted to Colonel Caleb Heathcoatc and others, and along the bounds of the said Patent unto the Colony line where it first begun ; and, also, all that small tract of land beginning Westerly at a great rock on the Westmost side at the Southwest end of a ridge known by the name of Rithbell, or Horse-ridge, and from thence Northwest and by North to Brunk's river, Easterly beginning at a m rked tree at the Eastmost side on the Southwest end of the said Ridge, and thence North to