Philip Pinkney, James Eustis and William Hoyden, and our associates -- the above mentioned Philip Pinkney, James Eustis and William Hoyden do, by these, resign up our particular interest that we have by patent, or which was granted and confirmed unto our associates, who have owned and subscribed unto the observation of a covenant, with this provisal, that they observe all conditions of our grant ; 2ndly, that they with us, and we with them, perpetuate, our and each of our interests of land, and maintain our and their enjoyments ; 3rdly, that we, with the major part of the inhabitants that are associated, have the disposing of land, but

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not they without us -- we that are associated accordingly as our names are

herein inserted : --

Philip Pinkney, David Osborne,

William Haiden, Samuel Drake,

John Hoitte, John Embury,

James Eustis, John Jackson,

Richard Shute, Moses Jackson, Moses Hoitte."

Upon the 9th of March, 1666, Robert Doughty purchased several parcels of land belonging to William Haiden, situated within the limits of Eastchester Patent. In 1667 the inhabitants of this town united with those of Long Island in protesting against the Duke's laws.''- The province of New York was retaken by the Dutch on the 30ih of July, 1673. Upon this occasion we find the deputies of Oostdorp, alias Westchester, and the adjacent hamlet of Eastchester, offering to submit themselves to the government of the States General and the Prince of Orange ; in return for which they were commanded "to nominate, by their inhabitants, a double number as magistrates for the aforesaid villages."b Subsequently the following order was issued by the Lords, Commanders, and Honorable Council of War of the New Netherlands, residing in Fort William Hendricke.