1 Original letter and list in the writer's possession. ^One dollar and twelve centK.

patentees in the said Letters Patent Named, or of those claiming under the said patentees, or some or one of them." ^

The East I'atent was granted March 2'* 1701 to the same Patentees as the West Patent with the addition to their number of Peter Jlatthews of Bedford. Five days before, on the 25th of February in the same year, Katonah, Wakemane, and another Indian executed a deed of confirmation to the Patentees of their right and estate in the tract* in which they thus describe, " bounded as followeth viz. Westward by Bedford, and by the patent granted to Caleb Heathcote and others,' northerly by Coll. Cortlandt's purchase and Croton's river, southerly and easterly by the Colony lines."

The patent itself in its general language is similar to those of the West and Middle Patents above set forth. It bounds the Tract granted in these words ; --

The East Patent Boxmds " Bounded South, by the division Line between New York and Connecticut, East, by the other division Line between New York and Connecticut, and so along said Line untill it meets with the Patent of Adolf Philipse,* and so along his southern bounds till it meets with the Mannor of Cortlandt, and from thence by a Line that shall run upon a direct course untill it meets with the first easterly Line of twenty miles of the said Mannor of Cortlandt, aiid from thence along the said Line Westerly till it meets with the Patent granted to R. Walter and others,' thence southerly along the said Patent, untill it meets with the bounds of the Township of Bedford, and thence round along said bounds until it meets with the Patent granted to Coll.