Being an addition to a Crown Colony, it was a new ac(iuisition by the Crown, and iis such its status was legally determinable by the King. Hence an "Ordinance" by the Governor of New Y'ork in the name of the King was issued on the 2!)th of August 1733 extending Westchester and the other counties aflected up to the new line between New Y'ork and Connecticut established by the agreement of the 14th of May 1731. As this Ordinance does not appear in any collection of New York Laws and Ordinances that the writer has seen nor in the two volumes of Historical Documents relat. ing to the Boundaries of New Y'ork, lately compiled and printed by ortler of the Regents of the University and is rare, it is here given in full from an original printed copy in the writer's possession.

" An

Ordinance for The Running and better Ascertaining the Partition Lines between the Counties of Wcs/- cheater, Diitc/iess, Albany and Ukter, and extending those Counties on the East side of Ifudsons River to the present Colony J>ine of Contierticuf.

Geoiuje the Second, by the Grace of (rod, of Great Uritain, France, and Ireland, KlX(i, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all Our loving subjects inhabiting or being in our Province of Xew York, and to all others whom it doth or may concern, Greeting,

'Anil John Pcll who was tho nicnihcr for the County in 1691, and vote*! for tho art of t!uit year, was of that old family which then JWB- •easeil the Manor of I'elliani.