In 1661, John Richbell, of the island of Barbadoes, West Indies, purchased of the Indians a tract lying between the lands purchased by Pell and those just mentioned, and extending a long distance inland. His title to this was confirmed by lettera patent issued by Governor Lovelace in 1668. In 1696 the widow of John Richbell conveyed these lands to Colonel Caleb Heathcote, who also made additional purchases of the Indians. All these were confirmed by a royal patent in 1701, creating the lordship and manor of Scarsdale, which included the present towns of Mamaroneck and Scarsdale and portions of White Plains, North Castle and New Castle.

We thus see that all the lands of the county bordering upon Long Island Sound had come into the hands of the English proprietors, regardless of the claims of the Dutch West India Company, under their purchase from the Indians in 1640.

These purchases were followed by the coming of English settlers, nearly all of whom were from Connecticut. But they iiad been preceded by others who had here sought a refuge from religious intolerance and persecution. Anne Hutchinson, with her husband, William, and their children, had come to Boston

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTEE COUNTY.

in 1634. She was the daughter of the Kev. Francis Marbury, of Lincolnshire, England. By her mother, she was connected with the family of the poet Dryden. Her religious views did not harmonize with those of the Puritans, and she was driven out of the colony. She first went to Rhode Island, but afterward sought peace and security near the Dutch settlement in New Netherland. She settled with her family upon Pelham Neck in 1642. Soon afterward John Throckmorton and thirty-five families, who found the intolerance of the Puritans unendurable, asked permission of the Dutch authorities to settle near them.