son, William Willett, who on the 15th of April, 1GG7, procured from Governor Mcolls a new and more carefully worded patent to it. The Keck continued in the Willett family for more than a century afterward, and, although never invested with manorial dignity, was recognized throughout the colonial period as one of the most important landed estates in Westchester County, the heads of the Willett family vying in social and public prominence with the Morrises, Philipscs, de Lanceys, and Van Cortlandts.

old saint Paul's church,

eastchkstek.

But though defeated in his attempt to acquire Cornell's Neck, Pell was recognized as the " one only master " of the territory reaching from the eastern confines of that locality to the Mamaroneck purchase of Thomas Richbell. We have seen that the title to the Westchester plantation was reconveyed to him by the settlers on the 16th of June, 1661; and in the same month another circumstance occurred indicating that Pell's authority over the whole domain was undisputed. On the 21th of June, 1661, he granted to " James Evarts

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and Philip Pinckney, for themselves and their associates, to the number of ten families,"' the privilege " to settle down at Hutchinson's, that is, where the house stood at the meadows and uplands, to Hutchinson's River." This new English colony, located just above Westchester, on the strip between Throgg's and Pelham Necks, was called Eastchester, or the >k Ton Farms." All the grantees came from Fairfield, Pell's home. The original ten families were soon joined by others, making twenty-six families in all. A curious covenant, comprising twenty-seven paragraphs, was adopted for the government of the place, in which plain rules for the observance of all wore laid down.1 To better secure themselves in the posession of 1 Imprimis, that we down on the track