" Know all men by these presents, that whereas there was an agreement made the fourteenth of November, 1654, between Thomas Pell and divers persons, about a tract of land called Westchester, <^ which was and is Thomas Pell's, bounded as appears by an instrument bearing date as above expressed, wherein the undertakers engaged the payment of a certaine summe of money, present pay, for the said land expressed in the covenant, by reason of some troubles which hindered the underwriters possession, the agreement was not attended to, the present inhabitants considering the justnesse and right of the above said title of Thomas Pell, doe surrender all their rights, titles, and claimes, to all the tract of land aforesaid, to bee at the disposal of the said Thomas Pell, as being the true and proper owner thereof. Witness our hand,

» Alb. Rec. Gen. Entries, p. 11. Also Alb. Rec. vol. i. 120, 121.

b Westchester continued to form a portion of the north riding until 1683, when the present county was erected.

« At this period Westchester embraced tiie present town of Eastchester. See vol. i. 122.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 171

this 16th day of June in the yeere of our Lord one thousand six hundred and

sixty- four.

John Quimbie. John Winter.

Consider Wood. Richard Ponton,

Nickolas Balle. his J*^ mark.

John Barker. William Jones,

Robert Huestis. his > mark.

Edward Jessopp. John Acer.^

Will Beet. John Williams,

John Larens. his fx mark.

Samuel Barret, Samuel Pitcher,

his B mark. his p mark.