feet and distinct; the one in the Indian field, and the other west of Fort Pond. The heel of the foot is towards the east in alt of them, as though formed in passing to the west. Excepting that they are the footsteps of the evil spirit, no record or tradition pretends to give their story. They existed at the first settlement by the whites, and were a subject of pawwa to the Indians." [N. S. Prime's Hist, of L. I.]

a Mr. Hayward purchased of the executors of tlie late Richard Shute. In 1671, James Enstice and others were appointed to lay out laud for Richard Shute /ancestor of Richard above mentioned) near Rattlesnake brook,

b For a further account of this family, see pedigree.

156 HISTORY OF THE

of the British army during the RevoUuionary war. In front of this mansion Henry Pinckney was shot before the ryes of his family, (by a party of soldiers,) whilst endeavoring to effect his escape on horseback, April 2d, -3780.

The Pinckneys of Eastchester descend from Philip Pinckney, one of the first ten proprietors and patentees of this town, who originally emigrated from Fairfield, cir. 1663-4. Philip Pinck-. ney was a lineal representative of the Pinckneys of England,, whose ancestor Gilo de Pincheni or Pinckenie came into that country in the train of William the Conqueror. The Pinckney estate is watered on the east by the Aqueanouncke, (Hutchinson's river,) and its tributary called Ann Hook's brook, from the- Indian chief of that name.