MAMARONECK.
York unto us our heirs and Successors or to Such Officer Or Officers as shall from time to time be impowered to receive the same the Annual & Yearly rent of Six pounds five Shillings Current money of New York in Leiu & stead of all other rents dues duties Services demands vv'soever In Testimony whereof we have caused the great Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed Witness John Xanlan Esq^ our Leiu': Governour and Commander in Cheif of our province of New York & the territories depending thereon in America & Vice Admiral of the same &c at our ffbrt in New York the fourteenth day of ffeb^ A* 1701, & in the thirteenth Year of our Reign John Nanfan, By his Hon" Command M. Clarkson Secry.
Secry« Office N York Mar 22d 173i A true Copy from the Record
ffred" Morris, D Secry Compared with the Record A L D
It will be noticed how carefully this patent by express words excepted and preserved to Colonel Heathcote his lands under the Richbell Patent, which in part were covered by its boundaries. The portion of this Patent in Bedford under the deed from Katonah above given, became the subject of controversy -- and remained unsettled till 1771, when the dispute was finally terminated by the following mutual Agreement, the original of which is in the writer's possession.
Agreement between the Proprietors of the West Patent and Bedford. " It is this day agreed between the proprietors of that part of the West Patent in Westchester County which was released to the said proprietors by Caleb Fowler Benjamin Smith, & Joseph Sutton & the persons settled upon the same Lands and claiming a title thereto under the Township of Bedford, that the whole matters in Dispute between the said parties, shall be submitted to the arbitration of Richard Willis & William Seaman of Jerico, George Townsend of Norwich, Thomas Hicks, & Hendrick Onderdonk of the Township of Hempstead, & all of Queens County, Gent".