Hence the title of " Colonel," by which he was ever afterwards known, and spoken of, notwithstanding the many higher and more distinguished positions and appointments he afterwards held, one of which was the judgeship of Common Pleas of the County, which he filled at the same time he was colonel of its militia.

Succeeding to all the Richbell estate in the East Neck, including the proprietaiy rights in the township tract of Mamaroneck, after obtaining the Indian confirmations and other deeds for the lands, and acquiring those from the head of Hutchinson's River to the Bronx, he had the whole erected into the Manor of Scarsdale under the Manor Grant above set forth in 1701.

Upon an eminence at the head of Mamaroneck harbor, overlooking the two beautiful peninsulas forming its eastern and western sides, the blue waters of the wide Sound into which it opens, and the distant hills of Long Island, called from him to this day, " Heathcote Hill," Colonel Heathcote erected a large double brick Manor-House in the English style of that period, with all the usual offices and outbuildings, with the purely American addition, however, of negro quarters, in consonance with the laws, habits, and customs of that day. Here he dwelt during the remainder of his life.

The people then living at Mamaroneck were very few. One of the first movements of Colonel Heathcote was to obtain the confirmation deed from the then Indian chiefs for Richbell's two-mile township tract above referred to- This instrument, dated June 11th, 1701, not quite three months after he obtained his Manor-Graut of Scarsdale, gives us the names of the then owners of the tract which was di-