Parsons two days later, on the 16th of November 1668, in consideration of natural love conveyed the East Neck to her daughter -- Ann the wife of John Richbell as a token of affection and dutiful behaviour. This made Mrs. Richbell the owner in fee of the entire East Neck. But to make her perfectly secure, Richbell made a settlement of it by way of jointure in her favor, by a deed in Trust to John Ryder of the 23d of April, 1669, in consideration of a marriage long since solemnized between them.' He died as above stated on the 26th of July 1684, and Mrs. Ann Richbell thereupon became vested in her own right in fee in the entire East Neck, from Mamaroneck River i-o Pipin's Brook and twenty miles back from the Sound northward into

1 Ante, 147.

2 West. Co. Records Lib. A, p. ,'54.

3 Ancient copies of all these deeds in the writer's possession. All are recorded in West. Co. Records, except that from Mrs. Parsons to Mi-s, Richbell.

the woods'. She continued in possession until by deed of the 23d of December 1697, she sold her entire estate of every kind and nature in her and her late husband's lands to Colonel Caleb Heathcote for the sum of £600 New York Currency and certain other beneficial provisions recited in the instrument.* These lands and some others adjoining which he had acquired Colonel Heathcote had erected into "the Lordship and Manor of Scarsdaie" by a Manor- Grant from Lieutenant Governor Nanfan then at the head of the Province on the 21st March, 1701.^ Upon the eminence at the head of the Harbour, still called Heathcote Hill,'^ he built a large double brick Manor