Witness John Nanfan, Esq., our Lieut. Governor and Commander-in-chief of our province of New York, and the territories depending thereon in America, vice-Admiral of the same, and at our fort in New York, this I4ih day of February, A.D. 1701, and in the 13ih year of our

reign.*

John Nanfan."

Tliis grant was subsequently known as the West Patent of North Castle.

The following items occur in the town records:

• Hook of Tat. Alb., No. vii. 191-

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 365

February 21st, 1743, an agreement between the Receiver General and others^ "concerning money that is coming to the former on the behalf of the King, for quit-rent of the West PatoitJ^^

In 1744 Joseph Hutchins and Caleb Green were aj^pointed " assessors for the west side of the branch of Byram River ;" "also Thomas Walters for the West Patenty^

John Halleck, of North Castle, in 1755 "sold to Joseph Fowler and Caleb Fowler three quarters of an acre of undivided land in North Castle, within a certain Patent known and called by the name of Fauconier's West Patent, and to be in the right of Thomas Weaver, who was one of the Patentees of said Patent, it being a part of a greater right purchased 13th of March, 1753, of John Thomas, one of the representatives of Westchester county."

In the Secretary of Staters office at Albany is a map of part of a tract of land (granted by letters patent under the great seal of the colony of New York, bearing date the fourteenth day of February, 1701-2, to Robert Walters and others) " which remains unsold, and contains four thousand one hundred and fifty one acres, divided into sixteen lotts by Charles Clinton, Jonathan Brown, and Elisha Budd, Commissioners, and Nathaniel Merritt, Surveyor, appointed by virtue of an act of the liieutenant Governor, the Council, and the General Assembly of the colony of Nev»r York, passed the eighth day of January, 1762, entitled an act for the more effectual collecting of his Majestie's quit-rents in the colony of New York, and for partition of lands in order thereto," <fcc.<^