The laud was then worth very little, and the Rye claimants were very few. Colonel Heathcote died February 28, 1720-21, and his entire estate passed under his will to his two daughters, Ann, the elder, subsequently the wife of James de Lancey chief justice of the Province of New York who died its Governor in 1760, and Martha, the younger, subsequently the wife of Lewis Johnston, M.D., of Perth Amboy, New J»rsey, who died in 1774. His widow, Mrs. Martha Heathcote, was the sole executrix. By her and the tw^o gentlemen just named, in the course of time, settlements were effected of Colonel Heathcote's interests in Whiteplains, the three patents above mentioned and in Harrisson's purchase.

HISTOEY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

In relation to White plains it has been stated erroneously that Colonel Heathcote died, " about four years later" than 1702, in which year a committee of Rye people were appointed to agree with him on a line between his Patent and White plains, and that the question remained " still unsettled." ^ This is an entire mistake, Colonel Heathcote lived nearly twenty years instead of four, after 1702, and maintained his right to White plains, but was always ready to agree with the Rye jieople about the matter, but they, though occasionally talking about it, practically remained passive, in consequence of the Richbell verdict against them of December 3, 1696, above set forth. Not till after Colonel Heathcote's death, which occurred on February 28, 1720-21, was the matter closed, though negotiations were pending in his lifetime, and Governor Burnet's Patent for White plains was issued to Joseph Budd, Humphrey Underbill and others, bearing date the 13th of March 1721. The Patentees named therein, with four or five exceptions, were entirely different men from the " proprietors of the White plaines purchase " ^ whose names appear in a list taken from the Rye Town Records under date of 1720, in Bolton's History, {1st ed. vol. ii. p- 341) and copied in Baird's Rye and Bolton's second edition.