De Witt fixes the date of its settlemeut some eight years later. " After the provisional arrangement of boundaries between New Netherland and New En gland, by Gov. Stuyvesant and the New England comiaissioners, in 1650. A number of Puritans from the east, settled a place then named Oost Dorp, (East Town) now Westchester, in Westchester county." De 'Wi.U's paper on New Netherland. Proceedings N. Y. Hist. Soc, 1844, 69,

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an action of slander done by his wife, &c., ended by arbitration.

When Richard NicoIIs, the Duke of Yorli's governonr, convened an assembly from the towns of Long Island and Westchester, to meet at Hempstead, March 1st, 1665, there appeared the following deputies from this place :

Edward Jessup, ' ■

John (iuimby.a August 6th, 1665, we whose names are underwritten, doe jointly agree to set to our hands to send the eight townsmen to Governor Nicolls, to stand by them in what they do in tliat particular, for the settlement of the towne.

WiUiam Q,uimby, Thomas Miller,

John Ferris, John Smith,

Robert Pinckney, C. Wood,

Edward Waters, Edward Jessupe,

Richard Ponton, • Thomas Hunt,

Samuel Barret, Thomas Hunt, Jr.

Thomas Vaile. At this early period, a portion of the judicial power appears to have been lodged in the hands of the constable, for in the town records this entry occurs.

Westchester, Sept 3, 1665. At a town court holden by the constable and the commissioners appointed. Thomas Hunt complained against an Indian called Pomoqucee, that the said Indian took his canoe from the shore, where it w'as safe, and carried it quite away. Upon examination, the Indian confessed that he took the canoe from the sliore, but said it was not secured, ^