Jessup's half, after his death, Westchester, and Richcame into the possession of Thomas Hunt, ofdaughter s, one of whom ardson's was inherited by his three married Farms LegWest the of or progenit was the wife of Gabriel Leggett, Ike o-etts, and the other the wife of Joseph Hadley, of the Yonkers. ely collectiv parcels, twelve into divided y originall whole patent was styled " The West Farms," a name descriptive of its local relation whose to Westchester, by whose citizens it was opened up and upon the and patent Farms government it depended. Between the West ownerwhose strip a lay t, southwes the at , lands of the Morrises " the deship was long in controversy, and which hence was called batable ground." The foundations of the great Morris estate were begun about 16 <U, s, when Captain Richard Morris, an English merchant from Barbadoe Samuel from Lewis, brother his and purchased, in behalf of himself conEdsall the old Bronxland tract. This was the identical land, granted was about which acres, hundred five sisting of some by the Dutch West India Company to Jonas Bronck, the first known After Bronck's death, it was owned settler in Westchester County. Curler by his widow and her second husband, the noted Arendt van to ors propriet several through passed it whom (or Corlaer), from purEdsall's . Amsterdam New in aker beaver-m a Samuel Edsall, chase was made on the 22d day of October, 1664, almost immediately after the conquest of New Netherland by the English; and he The promptly took out a patent for it from Governor Nicolls. of land Nicolls patent describes it as " a certaine tract or parcel commonly formerly in the tenure or occupation of Jonas Bronck's, the Engby and e, Ranackqu of name the by Indians the by called lish Bronck's land, lying and being on the maine to the east and or Kill over against Harlem town, having a certain small creek Barnes which rans between the north east part of it and Little greater a and River, East the into goes so and Island, near Hellgate, g creek or river which divides it from Manhattan Island, containin hisng interesti an is It land.1' of margon about 500 acres or 250 torical reminiscence that this Bronxland tract, now the most thickly not only populated portion of the old County of Westchester, was Dutch, the under settled be to borders the first locality within our made under but was also the object of the first private purchase the English.