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.

" Sutton's House " long the farm house of the Neck, stood near, and a littlesouth westof, the new farm house built about 1844, by the late Mr. Thomas J. de Lancey, which is now a part of the house standing at the angle of Mamaroneck and Long Beach Avenues, recently bought of the James Miller estate by Mr. J. A. Bostwick. At the meeting at Sutton's on the (jth of June 1774, the clerk reported that he had served Surveyor-General Colden with notice on the 2nd of the preceding May. The Commissioners then appointed Charles Webb, at that time and for thirty years after, one of the best Surveyors of the Province and State, Surveyor to make the Survey under oath, which was duly administered to him, and also to Joseph Purdy and Gilbert Robinson as chain bearers and Doty Doughty as " flagg carrier," and then they adjourned to the next day, the 7"^. when the survey was begun. It was carried on daily till nearthe middle of the following August, on the l(jth of which month. Maps, Field books, and Joiu-nals of the Commissioners, were duly signed in triplicate, one copy of each of