The Jury find that Momorronack River is the bounds of Richbells Pattent ^ here the ffresh water flals into the salt in said River, and from thence a northerly line into the woods : and if the Tenn' in Possession be on the West side of said Line then wee find for the plaintive, otherwise for the Defendant.

Joseph Lee, CI."

It would have been of more interest still at this

' Jointure.

2 So in the original.

3 The County Register, and also Clerk of the Court.

<The original bridge, which was some distance north of the present bridge, the location of which was only made in 1800, by the Westchester Turnpike Company under their charter of that year.

THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MANORS.

day, had it given the exact h)cati()n of the premises for which the suit was brought. It is believed to have been the hind of one Hunt, son-in-law of Underbill, who lived above and adjoining him on the upper part of Mamaroneck Kiver; but this is only a surmise.

This decision finally established the east boundary of Richbclls Patent and settled the legal as well as actual direction of both the esist and the west boundarjlines of that Patent. In the next century two controversies arose regarding the location of the dividing line between the east and the Middle Necks of Richbell's Patent, one in 1731 and the other in 1768, both of which were decided in fsivor of the Proprietors of the Manor of Scarsdale, which included the East Neck, the particulars of which belong more appropriately to the history of Mamaroneck as a town under the Act of 1788.