"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."

It will be noticed that the Indians sold to John Richbell only three necks of land, their sale and conveyance not including the " twenty miles into the woods," which seems to have gotten into the Richbell patent without the pre-requisite of purchase from the original proprietors.

'2 O'Callaghau, 516. I 2 Bryant, 262.

3 Boundaries of the State of New York, 25. * Westchester Kecords A, page 238.

WHITE PLAINS.

However, the lands granted by this patent were " within this government " (New York), and the patent did not attempt to, and of course, could not convey lands in the colony of Connecticut, or beyond the boundary line which ran from the mouth of Mamaroneck River north-northwest.

By deed dated April 23, 1669, John Richbell conveyed to John Ryder, as trustee for Ann Richbell, his wife, --

" All that certain psircel or tract of land, where ho now lives, called the East Neck, and to begin at the westward part thereof at a certain cri'ek lying, being and adjacent, by and betwixt the neck of land commonly called the Great Xeck and the East Neck, and so to run eastward as far as Mamaroneck river, including therein betwixt tlio two lines all the land as well north into the woods above Westchester iiatli, twenty miles, as the land below the path, south and towanls the river, iScc." 1