" 12lh of April, 1694, Hachaliah Brown and Thomas Merritt were appointed to go with tfie Indians and renew the marks of the White Plains purchase, agreeing with the Indians as reasonably as they can."'' "The same year Thomas Merritt and Joseph Galpin were chosen to lay out the land at the White Plains granted to Jonathan Horton by the town.''^ The next notice of this town occurs on the 9th of February, 1719, when, at a public meeting held by the proprietors of the White Plains, it was voted and agreed by the said proprietors that Captain Joseph Budd, John Hoyt, sen., .lohn Horton, Caleb Hiatt, Samuel Purdy and George Lane, jr., layers out of the said purchase chosen by the said proprietors, for laying out all the above said land, as may appear by record bearing date February lllh, 17|f, that the said layers out shall have for their trouble and industry for laying out the whole purchase and returning the bounds at or between the thirteenth day of April, which will be in the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty, one hundred and ten acres of land lying between the lower end, the ridges and Mamaroneck river. At the above said meeting lis voted and agreed that David Ogden and Hachaliah Brown are to survey and lay out

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the above said one hundred acres and ten of land as above mentioned."a

The following is a list of the proprietors, and the number of acres held by theni under the survey. "^