Applying to Governor Nicolls for a town patent, they were informed by him (December 28, 1665) that he would defer issuing it until the whole could be equally divided into lots according to each man's assessed valuation. Early in Kit!" (February 13) the desired instrument was granted to them, being the first of its kind in our county. The persons mentioned in the document are "John Quimby, John Ferris, Nicholas Bayley, William William Haidon's mark, II The mark of John Gay, I G John A. Pinkney. The mark of John Tompkins, 0 Richard Shute, The mark of John Hollind, I II Moses Hoitte, Richard Hoadley,

The mark of II( John Emory, Moses Jackson, John Clarke, This is a true iii.Mll. transcribe 23(1 Hay of Nov

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

Betts, and Edmund Waters, as patentees for and on behalf of themselves and their associates, ye freeholders and inhabitants of ye said town." The boundaries fixed were: At the west, " the western part of the lands commonly called Bronks Land "; at the south, the Sound, or East River; and at the east, Ann's Hook, or Pelham Neck. At the north they extended "into the woods without limitation for range of cattle." " All ye rights and privileges belonging to a town within this government " were bestowed. " Bronks' land," whose " western part " was indicated as the limit of Westchester town in the direction of the Hudson Eiver, was a territory of quite uncertain dimensions. Together with the lands beyond along the Harlem and the Spuyten Duyvil Greek, it was dotted with the farms of Dutch settlers who had been gradually coming over from the Manhattan Island side. On Manhattan Island, from the mouth of the Harlem River to Spuyten Duyvil, the land was well occupied; and at the northeastern extremity of the islaud a village called Harlem had been built up.