" Upon the petition of the people of the Hop ground, this court doth grant them the privilege of a plantation and do order that the name of the town be henceforth called Bedford, and this court doe appoint Joseph Theall to be the present chief military officer for the train band of Bedford, and Abraham Ambler is also empowered by this court to grant warrants to swear officers and witnesses, and to joyne persons in marriage according to law, and they doe free the sayd towne of Bedford from county rates, for the space of three years next ensuing.^

May the 2d, 1683, Catonah sagamore, and Papiaghis son, Tandaquid, Q,ueraway and Chickhaag sold to the proprietors of Bedford tlieland and meadow of Cohamong (Armonck) commonly so called -- " which said land and meadow lyeth to the south west, going to the bounds of Bedford.''^

By the settlement of the colonial boundaries, November, 1664, Bedford fell within the jurisdiction of Connecticut, the line between the two colonies commencing from the east point of Mamaroneck River, where the fresh water falls into the salt at high water mark, north north west to the line of Massachusetts. On the ground that this decision was erroneous, a farther agreement was concluded at New York, 28th of October, 1683, between the governor of Connecticut and certain persons appointed to act with him, by which it was stipulated that the line between New York and Connecticut should begin at Byram River, at the east point,