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

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Huthesson's broock, whear the house was, untell it com unto the river, that runeth in at the head of the meados. 2. That we indeavor to keepe and maintayn christian love and sivell honisty. 3. That we faithfully conssall what may be of inlinnyti in any one of us. 1. l'lainlie to dealle one with another in christian love. 5. If any trespas be don, the trespaed and the trespaser shall ehuse tow of this company, and they a thirde man if need be required, to end the mater, without any further trubell. U. That all and every one of us, or that shall f us. do pave unto the minester, according to his meade. 7. That none exceed the quantity of fifteen acres, until all have that quantity. S. That every man hath that meadow that is most convenient for him. H. That every man build and inhabit on his home lot before the next winter. 10. That no man make sale of his lot before he hath built and inhabited one year, and then to render it to the company, or to a man whom 11.