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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I

Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848. 296 words

curs a map containing tlie survey and division of all the certain tracts and parcels of land lying on Mamaroneck, Scarsdale and Harrison purchase, in the county of Westchester, the property of Caleb Heathcote, Esq., in his lifetime, and which remain unsold by him or his descendants since his death whereof we the subscribers were appointed commissioners by virtue of an act of the Lieutenant Governor, the Council and the General Assembly of the colony of New York, entitled an act for the more effectual collecting of his majesty's quit rents in the colony of New York, and for partition of lands in order thereto, which said lands we have laid out into three divisions, viz.: Division No. 1 or north division; division No. 2 or middle division; division No. 3 or south division ; north division laid out into 21 lots, two small lots in the possession of William Barker ; lots No. 16 and 17 controverted lands in his division. Division No. 2 divided into 9 lots for the proprietors ; division No. 3 or south division laid out into 11 lots; immbers 4, 5, 6 and Tare controverted; the remaining lots uncontroverted. Lots No. 13 and 18, and 2 small lots in the possession of William Barker ; the first lot, north division, and lot No. 7 in the middle or second division, distinguished on the map by a certain red line, which together contains 320 acres, 2 roods, 10 rods, are set apart for sale in order to defray expenses of division, 6cc., &.c. In witness whereof, as well the said commissioners as the surveyor by us appointed, have hereunto set their hands at Mamaroneck, in the county of Westchester, the sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1724.