The reader has, of course, borne in mind that throughout the period we have traversed in tracing the originial land acquisitions under English rule in the western division of the county -- that is, a period reaching to the end of the seventeenth century, -- the more complete settlement of the already well-occupied eastern division was steadily proceeding, and, besides resulting in the constant upbuilding of the little communities on the Sound, was incidentally bringing all previously neglected districts of the interior, up to the confines of Philipse's and Van Cortlandt's lands, under definite private ownership, and distributing through them an enterprising and energetic element of new settlers. To this onward movement from the east the inhabitants of all the existing patents from Westchester town to Byram Point contributed;

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and, moreover, ihe people of the adjoining parts of Connecticut continued to manifest a hearty interest and to share in the work of occupation and development. As Avill be shown later, much of the most notable enterprise undertaken from the east was by certain communities of settlers, or by individuals having only comparatively small personal interests, as distinguished from large landed proprietors. Indeed, notwithstanding the presence of two quite extensive and very solidly founded manor grants on the Sound (Pelham and Scarsdale), the general character of the original settlement and succeeding history of the eastern division of Westchester County differs totally from that of the western, in that the former represents mainly the results of communal and minor individual interest and activity, while the latter sprang essentially from manorial aspiration, proprietorship, and patronage. But in recurring to the history of the eastern portions of the county and of the gradual movement of settlers thence into the interior, Ave shall first review the progress of events in the two large proprietary estates of that division: the Pell estate, which, when last noticed, had been erected into a manor under the lordship of its founder, Thomas Pell; and the estate of John Pdchbell, of Mamaroneck, transmitted after his death to his wife, Ann, and from her purchased by Caleb Ileathcote, who soon afterward procured its erection into the Manor of Scarsdale.