On the 13th day of March, 1721-2, a royal patent was granted to Joseph Budd and the other persons named in the preceding resolutions and in the report of the surveyor-general, which letters patent recited the petition of Budd and his as.sociates, and the proceedings subsequent thereto, and granted, ratified and confirmed unto the said petitioners, -- (naming them), their heirs and a.ssigns, " All that said tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the County of Westchester, which is commonly k nown by the name of the White Plains," and described as in the report of Cadwallader Colden, surveyor-general.^

For forty-five years the marks and monuments indicating the boundaries of the White Plains purchase had been carefully renewed and preserved.* For twenty years Colonel Heathcote had i)ersistently refused the solicitations of the Eye people for an adjustment of the dirt'erences growing out of his unfounded claims. Now that Heathcote was dead, and his powerful influence with the Governor and Council no longer stood between the people and their rights, it only remained for them to .submit to the e.xcessive exactions of the Governor and Council before their territory should be finally confirmed to them. Three times were they compelled to make surveys of their goodly land,-- three times required to notify the owners of adjoining lands that such surveys were about to be

* Land Papers, vol. viii. page 126.

'Book of Patents, .\lbany, vol. viii. page 450.

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