Availing himself of the rights and privileges thus acquired, ho not only became the founder and lord of an organized manor, but embarked in comprehensive original purchases of the interior lands of Westchester County, which ultimately gave him, in association with others, the title to most of the county between the Manors of Cortlandt on the north, Philipseburgh on the west, Scarsdale on the These latter purchases, south, and the Connecticut line on the east. made under Governor Fletcher's license of 1696, were entirely disconnected from his manor grant of Scarsdale, and resulted in extensive new patents, which are known in the history of the county as the " Three Great Patents of Central Westchester," named respectively the West, Middle, and East Patents, and having an aggreThe history of the Three gate area of some seventy thousand acres. Patents belongs, however, with our account of Colonel Heathcote as one of the great early proprietors, and will receive brief notice after the story of Scarsdale Manor has been told. Caleb Heathcote was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, in 1665, and was the sixth of the seven sons of Gilbert Heathcote, gentleman, of that place. "The family was an ancient one, the first of whom there is authoritative mention having been a master of the Mint under Richard II." His father, Gilbert, was a Roundhead and stanch adherent of the Parliament in the civil Avars, serving creditably in the Parliamentary army. He held the office of mayor of Chesterfield. All of the seven sons became successful merchants. The eldest, Sir Gilbert, was " Lord Mayor of London, member of Parliament, one of the founders and the first governor of the Bank of England, knighted by Queen Anne, and created a baronet