Bronck's River to a certain bend in the said river, thence by marked trees south until it reaches the tide waters of the Sound, This together with all the islands lying before that tract." is the earliest legal record we have of the application of the name reason Westchester to any section of our county; although there is the for believing that for several years previously this locality on some that and cut, Connecti of people the by called so Sound had been The bounds of Pell s squatters had already made their way thither.1 ed upon purchase overlapped the old Dutch Vredeland and encroach and Cororton Throckm to region that in made the grants formerly nell." Indeed, after the English took possession of New Netherland, Neck, the Town of Westchester set up a claim to the whole of Throgg's Corand Pell brought suit to recover Cornell's Neck from Thomas nell's heir; but as it was a part of the English policy to confirm all both these pretensions were disallegitimate Dutch land grants, lowed Westchester, as originally so styled, covered a much greater Gravelly Brook, extent of country than the township of that name. boundary eastern its as Indians the named in the conveyance from of New line is a creek flowing into the Sound in the Township included ter Westches called Rochelle; so that the territory at first portions of besides Westchester township proper, the townships (or It is an interestthem) of Pelham, Eastchester, and New Rochelle. settled was the be to s township four these of first the that fact in^ seat of Dutch the nearest and cut one most remote from Connecti the migrathat n suspicio strong authority; which lends color to thewas under the secret direction, or tion of the English to this quarter sought at the connivance, of the government of Connecticut, which terriborder disputed to extend settlement as far as possible into the local tory Later as Pell's purchase became sub-divided, separate being ter Westches of name the parts, names were given to its several the original settlements had retained for' that portion only where Thus it came that the company making the first been established. d the name considerable sub-purchase within the Pell tract conferre Westadjoined ely immediat which of Eastchester upon their lands, The settlers in Westchester were not exchester town at the east.