Thus was settled finally the line, afterwards of much importance, Jis being the east line of the 6000 acre tract carved out of I'elham Mannor and sold by Pell to Leisler for the Huguenots in 1680. And as also as taken for the lino between the later towns of New Rochelle and Mamaroneck when erected in 1788 by tiie State Township Act of that year.

We now recur to the singular history of the Middle Neck.

It will be remembered that John Richbell purchased his three Necks from the Indians on the 2.'}'' of September 1661, and obtained tiie Dutch Government's groundbrief and Transi)ort(or 'License to purcliase' and ' Patent ') for them in May 1662, and his English Patent for them on October 16, 1()68 ; and that the f^ast Neck alone was sold by his widow in 1697 to Colonel Caleb Heathcote, and was included by him in his Manor of Scarsdale in 1701.

Five years after the date of his Patent for the three Necks, on the 20"' of November 1673, Richbell mortgaged the West neck to Cornelius Steenwyck, a rich burgomaster, of New Orange, as New York was called on its reconquest by the Dutch in that year, and a member of Governor Colve's Council, by the following singular instrument -- one of the few Dutch Mortgages that have come down to our days ;

" Appeared before as subscribed Aldermen of the City of New Orange, the honest Mr. John Richbell, Inhabitant of the place Marraneck, in the Main, within this province, who acknowledged and declared for himself, his heirs and executors, fully and duly to be indebted Mr. Cornelius Steenwyck Chief Council' of this Province, a just and neat sum of Two thousand and four hundred Guilders, Wampum,* being occasioned by and from delivered Merchandizes, disbursed Moneys, or otherwise, by him the said John Richbell, to his full satisfaction received and enjoyed of Mr.