The description of the lands granted in Lovelace's Patent of Confirmation is as follows : -- " A certain parcel of land within this government, on the Main, contained in three Necks, of which the eastermost is bounded with a small river called Mamaranock river, being almost the east bounds or limits of this government upon the main, and the westermost with the gravelly or stony brook or river which makes the east 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 said Necks twenty miles into the woods . . . together with all woods, beaches, marshes, pastures, creeks, waters, lakes, fishing, hawking hunting and fowling, and all other profits immunities, and emoluments to the said parcel or tract of land belonging, annexed, or appertaining, with their and every of their appurtenances, and every part and parcel thereof."
These " Three Necks " were called the " East," the "Middle," and the "West" Necks. The Middle
1 Deed book III. 97, Sec. of State's office.
Neck was sometimes called the Great Neck, from its longer extent of water front, which at first led to the supposition that its area below Westchester Path was greater than that of the East Neck. "The Ea.st Neck " extended from the Mamaroneck river on the east to a small stream called " Pipin's brook " on the west, which divided it from the " Middle ' or "Great " Neck, and is the same which now crosses the Boston road through the land, and just east of the house of the late Mr. George Vanderburg. ' The Middle Neck extended from the latter stream westward to a much larger brook called " Cedar or Gravelly brook " which is the one that now bounds the land belonging to Mr.