Several of these Patentees held their shares not for themselves but in trust for friends and some of them sold their shares to other persons.

Immediately after the Patents were issued, all the different Patentees named in each executed joint covenants under seal, that no survivorship should take place aniong them, and that each should be divided into as many distinct parts as there were Patentees. The covenant for the West Patent was dated February 18"' 1702, those for the Middle and East Patents were both dated the same day, the 25'" of June 1702.^

The following statement showing in the three Patents, the changes of the Patentees names, the Quit-rents payable for each, the number of acres of improvable land in each, and their respective boundaries, is from the original in the writer's possession. It is undated, but was evidently made out in Colonel Heathcote's lifetime, and probably about 1715 or 1716.

The West Patent. " Patent : 14 Feb : 1701 5000 Acres Improvable Land £6, 5, 0, Quit-Rent 10 Shares.

Patentees Names In trust for or sold to,

R. Walter Schellenx & Lyon

L. At wood Clarksons C. Depeyster C. Heathcote M. Clarkson

Jno. Chollwell Quinby

R. Slater T. Weaver

R. Lurting C. Heathcote

Barne Cosens Peter Fanconnier

' Original deed in Colo. Heathcote's handwriting in possession of the writer. It is not recorded.

8 From ancient copies of these covenants in the writer's possession.

MAMARONECK.

Bounded Northerly,

By Croton River and the Mannor of Cortlandt, or one of them.