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.

We now turn to Colonel Heathcote's title to the part of the Manor which he obtained directly from the Indians. This was the portion between Hutchinson's River and the Bronx, bordering to the south on the Eastchester Patent, now a part of the town of Scarsdale, a tract which in the Colony days bore, and to a certain extent still bears, the local name of " The Fox Meadows." It is thus described in the Indian deed from Patthunke, Beopo, Cohawuey, and Wapetuck to Colonel Heathcote, " To begin on the west side at southermost end of a ridge known by the name of Richbell's or Horse- Ridge at a great Rock and so to run a north-northwest line to Broncks's River, and on the eastermost side from Mamaroneck River, and from the head thereof to Broncks's River." '

Nearly a year later, another deed was executed to Colonel Heathcote by three of the above named Indians, Pathuuke, Wapetuck, and Beopo, for that part of the land lying between the above tract and the Eastche.ster Patent line in which it is thus described, " butted and bounded as followeth Eastwardly by the marked trees or westermost bounds of a certain tract of Land sold by the said Beopo Patthunke Wapetuck & Cohawney to the said Heathcote bearing date the thirtieth day of March one thousand seven hundred and one, northwardly by Bronxe's River Southwarcly and Westwardly by Henry Fowler's purchase and others." '- Thirty years afterward, in the first of the two suits above alluded to instituted by the then proprietors of the Manor of Scarsdale against one Quimbyfor trespass, Henry Fowler gave the following account of the circumstances of this purchase of Colonel Heathcote, in the form of an affidavit ; -- " Memorandum that on y' Sixth day of May 1731 in the fourth year of his Majesties Reign Aunoq.