Moreover, I do hereby give, ratify, confirm and grant nnto the said patentees and their associates, their heirs, successors and assignees, all ye rights and privileges belonging to a town within this government, and that ye place of their present habitation shall continue and retain the name of Westchester by which name and style it shall be distinguished and known in all bargains and sales, deeds, writings and records, they ye said patentees and their associates, their heirs, successors and assignees, rendering and paying such duties and acknowledgements as now are or hereafter shall be constituted and established by the laws of this government, under the obedience of his Royal Highness, his heirs and successors. Given under my hands and seal, at Fort James, in New York, on the isle of Manhattans, 13 February, in the 19lh year of his Majesty's reign. Anno Domini,

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' - • '.-.V,. Richard TSicolls.

In the Assize Recofds at Albany, appears the following entry.

" Whereas Mr. Thonms Pell of Ann-hookes neck, (Pelhani neck.) late deceased, upon pretence of purchase of several tracts of land of the Indian proprietors within 'the then government and jnsisdiction of the Dutch, made claiius nnto the same as namely, the lands belonging to Westchester, Eastcliester and Cromwell's neck, and that, after said land together with a larger tract formerly belonging to the said Dutch, were by his Majes-

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ty's letters patent granted unto his Royal Highness the Duke of York, and by the said Dutch surrendered by agreement unto his Royal Highness's deputy Col. Richard Nicoils before whom said Pell did personally appear the first assizes held in New York, and then to make good his claim to the lands aforesaid, and where it being sufficiently and lawfully proved that the aforesaid lands, together with a large tract as far as Greenwich, was before purchased by the late Dutch government, and whatsoever part thereof was not by him granted out, was of right property belonging unto his Royal Highness, so:ne of which was granted to Thomas Richbell, &c., &c.