" All that my parcel of land formerly called Mangopson neck, now called by the name of the great neck, &c., bounded easterdly by a brook, called by name Pipin's brook, which runs into the salt water creek, and so running round along by the Sound, and so running up to a brook called by the name of Cedar or Pine tree brook, together with a parcel of land running up said brook by a range of marked trees until this meet with the marked trees of Colonel

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Caleb Heathcote, and from thence running by the aforesaid range of marked trees, down to the said Pipings brook, to the aforesaid salt water creek, with all and singular the members, rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, &c.

The mark of Ann Hook, Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us, Besly, Benj. Collier.

The heirs of Samuel Palmer, viz. Obadiah, Solomon, Nehcmiah, and Sylvanus subsequently sold the great neck, (containing three hundred and twenty acres,) to Josiah Quinby. It appears that Adolph Philipse and Jacobus van Cortlandt purchased (in the lifetime of John Richbell,) the fee simple of certain lands in Mamaroneck, embracing one full and equal half moiety of the west neck ; the whole of which afterwards became vested in the person of Frederick Philipse. This individual eventually claimed the whole territory north of Westchester path lying above the great neck, so that when the surveyor general, on the ISth of November, 1724, commenced the survey of the great neck, he was stopped by Philipse, when he came above Westchester path. The surveyor however continued the original line until he came to Bronx's river, here again he was opposed by Philipse who forbad and warned him at his peril to proceed any further, as he claimed all the land beyond Bronx's river by a different title.