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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 309 words

By its terms the Manor-Grant included a tract embracing the i)resent towns of Mamaroneck, Scarsdale, a small i)art of Harrison, with White plains, and a portion of Northcastle. But as a dispute existed with "some of y'' inhabitants of y° town of Rye " as to White plains at the time of Colonel Ileathcote's'' purchase of the tract, the Manor-tJrant expressly provided that it should give no further title to White plains to Colonel Heathcote than what he already had before it issued. Irrespective of White plains and the lands beyond, the length of the Manor was about nine miles by an average width of a little more than two miles. The following is the

MANOR-(iRANT OP THE MANOR OF SCARSDALE.

William the third by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France & Ireland, King, Defender of the faith &c. To all to whom these presents shall come sendeth greeting ; Whereas our loving subject Caleb Heathcote, Esqr. hath i)etitioned the Hon.ble John Nanfan our Lt. Govern'r, & Comand' in Cheif of the Province of New Yorke in America, & our Councill of the said Province, for a confirmation of a tract of land in the County of Westchester, Beginning at a marked tree by Mamoronack River w'ch is the eastermost side of the Northern bounds of Mamoronack Township, being about two miles from the country road & to run along the sd. River to the head thereof, & thence on a north line untill eighteen miles from the said marked tree is compleated ; westerly, beginning at the marked tree or a great rock being the westermost part of the northern bounds of the aforesd. township, being about two miles from the country road, & thence to run northerly eighteen miles as the line on the eastermost side of the said land runcth, including in the sd.