Signed, sealed, and delivered in pre- The mark of X

sence of us,- Robt. Bloomer, George Woariatapus

Copping, David Wliiilock.- The mark of AH Ann Hooke,

Gramatan Sachem, Porrige.

The same year it was resolved by the inhabitants of this town, " that Edmimd Ward shall have and hold 60 acres of land, in consideration that the said Edmund Ward do pay the Indians purely, and clear the said town of, and from the said pay, when need be, &c.

' Westchester Rec.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 131

The Indian purchase to be paid for as follows, viz., 14 guns, 12 coats, 12 Indian kettles, 12 Indian axes, 4 adzes, and 4 barrels of cider ; this agreement entered into by me, Richard Shute, recorder in Eastchester.

On the 6th of April, 1705, Patthunck, Sagamore, Hopescoe alias Porrige, Anne Hook, and Elias, Indian proprietors, sold to George Booth, joiner, of the city of New York, and his associates,

"All that our right of land which is not yet lawfully purchased, lying and being from the land which is now in dispute betwixt Westchester and Eastchester, and so running along by Hroncks's river to Hutchinson's river, and bounded on the north by Eastchester lyne, to have and to hold, &c."

Upon the 22d of Sept. 170S, the following letters patent were issued under the great seal of the Province, to Colonel William Peartree and his associates.*

"Anne by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c., the queen, defender of the faith, &c. ; whereas, it appears, that our beloved cousin, Edward Viscount Cornbury, had granted to Col. William Peartree, Col. Jacobus van Cortlandt, Joseph van Home, Capt. John Drake, Thomas Pinckney, Joseph Drake, Edmund Ward, Henry Fowler, and Roger Barton, a grant for a tract of land in Westchester Co., beginning at Hutchinson's brook, at the end of the half mile mentioned in Eastchester patent, and so up the said Hutchinson's brook, as the brook runs to the head thereof, and from thence, northwest t© Brunckses river, and so up the said Brunckses river, as the river runs, till it comes to bear with the head of Hutchinson's river, due southeast to a chesnut tree, marked, and so down the said Hutchinson's river as the river runs, till it comes to the northeast, and southwest line of Eastchester patent, and so down southwest, along the said line, to the head of Rattlesnake bYook, and from thence down the said brook as the brook runs to the aforementioned half mile of Eastchester patent, and from thence westerly to the above said Hutchinson's brook, where it began : know ye, that we have ratified the said grant to the above mentioned persons, reserving what has been granted to Westchester, 23 of Sept. in the 7th year of her majesty's reign, A.