The strip devoted by Eichbell to the Mamaroneck house lots was called " BichbelFs two-mile bounds," from the fact that each lot ran two miles " northwards into the woods." Such was the beginning of the venerable village of Mamaroneck. For many years, however, only a very few settlers lived there, and in an instrument drawn as late as 1707, by " the freeholders of Mamaroneck " in common, the names of only eight persons appear as signers. Just before his death John Eichbell was engaged in a controversy with the townspeople of Eye concerning the ownership of a tract called by the Indians Quaroppas, which had already become ^ known among the whites as "the White Plains." This land was unquestionably embraced within the limits of EichbelFs original purchase, described as running northward twenty miles into the woods; but in 16S3 the people of Eye bought the same White Plains district from the Indians claiming its proprietorship. At that time Aet&BlktitA* ANCIENT DISr.ItOW HOUSE, MAMARONECK. the New York and Connecticut boundary agreement of 1664 was still in force, whereby the dividing line between the two provinces started at the mouth of the Mamaroneck Eiver and ran north-northwest. Under the then existing boundary division, therefore, Eye was still a part of Connecticut, and, moreover, the White Plains tract also fell on the Connecticut side. This circumstance, strengthened by the incorporating of it within the Eye limits while the old boundary understanding still prevailed, enabled the Eye men to advance plausible pretensions to it when, very soon afterward (in fact, only six days subsequently), a new boundary line was fixed, beginning at the mouth of the Byram Eiver, which gave both the White Plains and Eye to New York. The claim set up by Eye to the White Plains caused Eichbell's title in the upward reaches of his twentymile patent to assume a decidedly cloudy aspect; and to the confusion thus brought about was due the comparatively limited range of