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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 283 words

It also shows the "Great Lotts" or the " Long Lotts " being those in the northern part of the township Tract which Colonel Heathcote and the other owners had so laid out in 1706, in the former's lifetime, and also the short lots at their southern end, all of which took up the whole of that tract northward and beyond the home lots, to the township line. The latter are not shown. Colonel Heathcote had in 1708, and in 1716 long after hisManor- Grant, and at other later times, bought several parts and parcels of the original home lots as Richbell had laid them out, which in the course of time had been divided up by their owners. All these were either owned separately in 1774, by his heirs, or had been previously disposed of by them, the two extremely small ones fronting on the Westchester path or Boston road being all that were in joint ownership at the date of the partition. The accompanying map being on so small a scale gives only a very general idea of the Manor, without showing the details on the original maps, which are all very large.

From the respective owners who recciveil their particular lots under this final partition of the Manor

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Lands of Scarsdale in fee, have those lands passed to the great number of parties now owning and occupying them, with, of course, all the rights and privileges of all lauds granted by the Crown of England prior to the 14th of October 1775, and guaranteed and confirmed by all the successive constitutions of New York, both as an Independent Sovereignty, and as one of the United States.