The inhabitants of Rye were accordingly summoned to show cause at the next Court of Assize in Westchester County " wiiy the saitl lauds do not of right belong to John Richbell." - It does not appear how the suit was determined; certainly not in favor of Richbell's claim, as the possession of the land by the Rye people seems from that time to have been uninterrupted and their right unijucstioncd.

By a deed dated December 23, 1697, acknowledged :\Iarch 22, 1698, Ann Richbell, widow of John Richbell, convej's all her estate and rights in and to the East Neck and twenty miles north into the woods, to Caleb Ileathcote, of Westchester.-' This conveyance recites the deed from John Richbell to John Ryncr in trust for Ann Richbell, above referred to. It is by virtue of these conveyances that Caleb Ileathcote became seized of the lands embraced in his patent granted in 1702.

By the close of the year 1697 White Plains had already, in a measure, become settled ; the street now known as ISruadway was laid out, and home-lots upon it built iii)on. The esust part of the house which lately stood north<of the residence of W. R. Brown, Esq., was then standing, and occupied by Samuel Odell. *

On the 2d day of August 1699, the Indians of Mamaroneck presented a petition * to Governor Nanfan, setting forth that their nation had soUl several parcels of land to John Pell, Esq., and to Mr. Richbell, deceased, for which they had never received the satisfaction promised them, although for these many