Pell's and proceed to have the line run between the town and him, &c., and report of their doings next Tuesday."

Fourth of September, 1694, it was agreed upon at a lawful town meeting that Richardson shall have free liberty to build or erect a mill or mills npon the stream on the great creek of the town, for and in consideration of grinding of the inhabitants' corn, for the fourteenth part, also liberty of cutting timber for a saw mill. Done in behalf of the town, &c.

In 1700 it was resolved at a meeting of the inhabitants, "That the line between" " Thomas Pell's patent and the town of Westchester, (pursuant to the grants made by Governor Nicolls,) shall be run by the surveyor general of the province of New York, and that the standard for running said line shall be pitched and placed and sett in the middle of" " Hutchinson's river at the going over of the road as far up as the tide flows, and so to run upon a north line to Broncks's river, and northward down said river in the middle of the channel to the Sound, which said bounds or lines to continue forever between the said Thomas Pell's patent and the said town of Westchester.''^-

The same year a grant of land appears to have been made by the inhabitants to John Pell, Esq.b

At a meeting of the trustees held 23d day of January, A. D. 1720, present, Miles Oakley, president, Trustees. John Oakley, John Ferris,