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,

Thomas Hadden, Peter Ferris,

Thomas Baxter, Joshua Hunt,

Israel Honeywell, Nathaniel Underbill.

"Whereas several persons have come with boats, canoes, &c., a fishing,

a Town Rec. b Town Rec.

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and have broke up our ground, and taken away ye oysters from within ye limits of our patent, in an unlawful manner, therefore, it is voted and agreed upon by the trustees aforesaid, that any person or persons who shall at any time hereafter trespass upon us by fithing, breaking our ground, and taking cur oysters in ye manner aforesaid, shall be immediately prosecuted according to law for such trespass or trespasses, and it is also voted and agreed upon by ye trustees aforesaid, that John Ferris, Thomas Baxter, Joshua Hunt, of Westchester, Capt. Joseph Drake, Nathaniel Tompkins, and Moses Fowler, of Eastchester, do immediately put this into execution ; and it is also agreed that if any freeholder of Westchester do take any oysters to transport out of our township to make sale thereof, such freeholder or freholders shall be esteemed as trespassers, &c.