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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. 329 words

Hunt and Brundage, recommended "That the remaining part of the White Plains, after the lands of Hunt and Brundage be laid out as before mentioned, be granted to Joseph Budd, John Hoit " and the others named in the above resolution, subject to the saving clause therein contained. The report is indorsetl, " March ye 1st, 1721-2. Reported and approved of by the Council, J. 8. Bolin, D. CI. Coun." '

In compliance with this report, Cadwallader Colden, the surveyor-general, " laid out for Joseph Budd, John Hoit " and the others,

" \ certain tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Westchester, and is commonly known by the name of White Plains. Beginning at a large White-oak tree, marked with several letters, where two brooks fall into the West branch of Mamamneck river, and runs thence by markeil trees to Brun.\es River, near to the place where a small brook falls into the sjiid River by a bunch of .\ldei-s, soma of which are marked. Thence up the stream of lirunxes River to an oak-tree about seventeen chains, above Anthony Miller's fulling-mill. Thence by marked trees to a White-oak marked, near Long 3Ieadow Brook. Thence ilown the stream of the said Brook to the land laid out for Daniel Brundage ; thence along his line to the siiid Long Meadow Brook ; thence down the stream of the said brook to the place where it falls into JIamaroneck River and down the stream of said River to the land granted to Christopher Bridge ; then along his lines and the lines of the land laid out for Samuel Hunt to Mamaroneck River; then down the stream of the said River to the place where the West Branch falls into the said River, and then ui) the stream of the said West Branch to the place where it began, containing four thousand four hundred and thirty five acres, with all allowance for highways.