Upon the 12th of January, 16S6, Governor Thomas Dongan granted a jyatent to Thomas Hunt, sen., for all his land bounded on the east by the river Aquehung or Bronx, extending to the midst of the said river, on the north by certain marked trees and a piece of hammock, and on the west by a certain brook called Sackrahung, for the value of one bushel of good winter wheat."*

The following receipt appears to have been given for quit rent due on the above patent.

» Co. Rec. vol. ii. From the original \a the possession of Mr. Daniel Winship, Hunt's Point

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" Received of Thomas Hunt, sen., twenty-five bushels and one half wheat, in full for his quit rent for his land in the county of Westchester, upon Broncks's river, to the 25th of March last past. Witness my hand, in New York, this 9th day of April, A. D. 1717.

"Richard Nicoll, Deputy Receiver^

Seventeenth of October, 1687, Joseph Hadley of the Yonkers patent conveys to Thomas Williams of the West Farms eight acres formerly given him by John Richardson. In 1711 the heirs of the patentees united in a second division of the West Farms.

"Whereas Thomas Hunt, sen., of ye West Farms in ye lorough town and county of Westchester in ye colony of New York, yeoman, and Elizabeth Leggett of ye same place, widow, did on ye 9th day of May last past, by an instrument under their hands and seals, formerly agree and conclude that the West Farms lots, containing twelve in number, should be surveyed and laid out by myself or some other person, and that according to a former survey made by me William Taylor, on or before the last day of June instant, with a further covenant, promise, and agreement, each to the other, for themselves and each of their heirs, executors, and administrators, as far as they or any of them are concerned in the said lots, that the survey made by M.