" Coll. Caleb Heathcote well acquainted with the North bounds of the Tract of land called Well's and Coxe's purchases, being the lands long before claimed by, and since patented to, the Town of Rye the 11th day of August 1720;

" With the East and Xorth bounds of the lands granted the 25th day of June, 1698, to William Nicoll Esq., Ebenezer Willson, David Jamison, John Harrison, and Samuel Haight, called Harrison's purchase ;

" With the North bounds of the lands claimed by the Inhabitants of White Plains ;

" With the Eastmost bounds of the several contiguous tracts of land granted the 23rd day of December, 1684, to Frederick Phillipse, and the course of Brunks river;

" With the South bounds of those granted the 17th of June, 1697, to Coll. Stephen Cortlandt ;

" With the North and West bounds of the lands belonging to the Town of Bedford ;

" And well knowing how, and where, the three several lines which have to divide this Province from the Colony of Connecticut, are to fall and to run, and consequently the location, extent, and limits, of the then still vacant lands adjoining thereunto ; he did acquaint there with the Persons hereinafter named jointly with, and for the use of, whom, with and by the assistance of Joseph Theale, John Horton, Joseph Purdy, Nathaniel Selcick, Richard Scofeiid, James Mott, and Henry Disbrow, he did wholly and lawfully purchase the same.

"Being all that certain tract of laud in the County of Westchester, bounded Northerly by the Manor of Cortlandt, Easterly with Bedford line of three miles square, the Whitefeilds, and Byram River, Southerly by the Colony second line, Rye line stretching to Byram River, the land of John Harrison, and the White Plains, and Westerly by Brunk's river and the Manuor of Philipsburgh.