The "East Neck" extended from Mamaroneck River to a small stream called "Pij)ins Brook" which divided it from the Great Neck and is the same which now crosses the Boston Road just east of the house of the late Mr. George Vanderburgh ; the " Middle Neck " extended from the latter stream westward to a much larger brook called " Cedar or Gravelly Brook," which is the one that bounds the land now belonging to Mr. Meyer on the west ; and the " West Neck " extended from the latter to another smaller brook still further to the westward, also termed " Stoney or Gravelly Brook," which was the East line of the Manor of Pelham. A heated controversy arose between John Richbell and John Pell, as to which of the two brooks last named was the true boundary between them, Pell claiming that it was the former and that the " West Neck " was his land. After proceedings before Governor Lovelace and in the court of assizes the matter was finally settled on the 22d of January 1671 by an agreement jjractically dividing the disputed territory betw'een them. This was approved by Governor Andros and permission given for a survey.'

For some reason not now known, the survey and division was not actually effected till 1677, when it was made by Robert Ryder the Surveyor-General as follows ; --

" Whereas there hath been a difference between John Richbell and Mr. John Pell which by virtue of an order from the Right Honourable Major Edmund Andros Esqr. Governor Generall of New York, I have made a division of the within mentioned Neck of Land by and with the mutual consent of both parties,