History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
to one 6 guns to anker of rum to 20 bars of lead to 12 drain '* knifs
to 12 par sockins to 12 citels " to G iron citels to cotun cloth
11 Roberts was the loading man of Bedford, noted for his bitter hostility to the Church of England, and bis intense desire to profit by all the public employments he could obtain.
12 Peter.
•^Sickles. 1^ Drawing-knirei.
HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
to 20 knifs to 12 hos 2 to 12 swords to 12 axis "
to dufils-^
to blankits
to 10 barils of sider'
One of the persons prominently engaged with Colonel Heathcote in obtaining the several Indian deeds above set forth for the lands between Harrison and the Crotou River was Joseph Horton of Rye the grantee in the above deed of the 4th of July 1701 for all the unpurchased land between Byram river and the Bronx. The following instrument shows the nature of the agreement between them and incidentally Heathcote's precise view of his own bounds and what belonged to him under his Richbell conveyances in the territory covered by the foregoing Indian deeds and the three great patents subsequently based upon them.
Agreement of Joseph Horton xvith Colonel Heathcote.
Whereas by virtue of a License from Coll. Benj" ffletcher late Governor of this Province unto Coll. Caleb Heathcote impowering him to buy any lands from the Indian Proprietors betwixt Scroton's River * and the north end of Harrisson's Pattent, the said Heathcote and Joseph Horton have [bought] & are about to buy of the Indian Proprietors considerable tracts & parcells of Land ; Now know all men by these presents that It is mutually agreed & concluded betwixt the said Caleb Heathcote & Joseph Horton that such parts of any tract or parcells of land bought by them of the indian Proprietors as falls within said Heathcote's lines by virtue of his deeds from Mrs.