A fter the proper advertisements had been published the proper time in Rivington's New York Gazetteer and Holt's New York Journal, two of the newspapers of the da}', the Commissioners met to organize " at the house of Thomas Beslj' in New Rochelle " on the oth of April 1774. Philip Pell, .Ir , was appointed clerk. The Commissioners and ch'rk were sworn in by Judge Tiiomas Jones of the Supreme Court ^ who attended for the purpose, and delivered to each a certificate of their appointment, signed by himself. The Commissioners ordered a notice that they would proceed to make the survey and partition on the (ith of June 1774, to be published, and also to be served on Alexander Colden, Surveyor-General. This notice, with a full description of the lands, was published weekly for six weeks in Rivington's New York Gazetteer and Holt's New York Journal. On the Gth of June 1774 the Commissioners met at the house of William Sutton, on what is now De Lancey's Neck, accordingly. William Sutton was the leading man of his day at Mamaroneck. He was one of the Commissioners, and had been the tenant of De Lancey's Neck for a great many years previously and continued such to his death about the close of the Revolutionary war. He knew every one of note in the County, and was as thoroughly accpiainted with the Manor lands in general as he was with those he himself had in cultivation. Jacobus Bleecker was a prominent resident and land holder of New Rochelle, and the grandfather of the late Anthony J. Bleecker, the well known Real Estate Auctioneer of New York. Philip Pell was of the old manorial family of the Pells of Pelham, and Philip Pell, Jr., the clerk was his oldest son. All were persons thoroughly acquainted with the extent, situation, and value, of the Heathcote estate, and the Manor of Scarsdale.