I'elPs purcli.isc ; now tliese are to certify to all and Everyone whom it may concern, that I, Wompoqueum, did by myself, and in behalf of my aforesaid brother JIaliatahan, firmly bargain and sell to Mr. John Kichbell, of Oyster B.-vy, to him and his heirs forever, the above-mentioned three necks of land, together with all otiier privileges thereunto belonging, six ^yeeks before I sold it to Mr. Kevell (Pell) and did mark out the bounds, and gave Mr. Richbell possession of said land, and did receive iMirt of my pay in liand, as witness niy hand.

" The mark 0 of Wopoqueum. " Witness, J.\cOB Yough, Catharine Tocgh."*

From the time of Richbell's purchase down to October Ki, 1668, he was engaged in a constant dispute with Thomas Pell in regard to the boundaries of their respective purchases. This difficulty having finally been settled, a patent of the last-mentioned date was issued by Governor Lovelace to Richbell, wherein the land granted is described as follows :

"Whereas there is a certain parcel or tract of land n-ithiii this government, >ipon the main, contained in three necks, of which the Eastermost is bounded with a small river, called Maniaroneck river, being also the esist bounds or limits of this government upon the main, and the westermost, with the gravelly or stoney brook or river, wliich makes the ejist limits of the land, known, by the name of Mr. Pell's purchase. Having to the South the Sound and running northward from the marked trees upon the ssiid neck, twenty miles into the woods, wliich said parcel of laud, &c., &c."