Genl. as aforesd, did thereby ratify, confirm and grant unto the said patentees, their associates, their heirs, successors and assigns, all the rights and privileges belonging to a town within this government, and that the place of their then present habitation should continue and retain the name of Westchester, by wliich name and stile it was to be distinguished and known in all bargains, sales, deeds, writings and records, they the sd. patentees and their associates, heirs, successors and assigns, rendering and paying such duties and acknowledgments, as then were or hereafter should be constituted or established by the laws of the said province, as by the said writing or patent now remaining upon the records of the secretaries office, relation being thereunto had, may more at large appear. And whereas, afterwards, on or about the sixth day of Janry., in the year of our Lord, 1686, upon the petition of several of the freeholders of the said town of Westchester, in behalf of themselves and the rest of the ffreeholders and inhabitants of the said town, directed to Coll. Thomas Dungan, then Capn. Genl. and Gov. in Chief of our sd. province. The sd. Coll. Thomas Dungan, by virtue of the power and authority to him derived, in and. by a certain instrument in writing, under his hand and seal of our sd prov'e of New York, whose date is the day and yeir last abovesd, for the consideration therein mentioned, did give, grant, ratify, release and confirm, unto twelve of he freeholders and inhabitants of the sd town of Westchester, Vol. IL 24