Westchester's town charter, dated April 16, 1696, conferred the " municipal privileges of a mayor and aldermen and assistants, and the additional one of a representative ofits own in the assembly of the province"; and Colonel Heathcote was appointed its first mayor. It was in this same year, as we have seen, that he took the steps which led to the creation of the Manor of Searsdale and to the great purchases by him and associates of the vacant and unappropriated lands in the central part of Westchester County which comprised the " Three Patents." By the terms of Mrs. Riehbell's conveyance to him of the Richbell estate in 1697, he succeeded to all of her property rights, both on the East Neck and in the interior region patented to her husband by Governor Lovelace, running northward " twenty miles into the woods." This conveyance did not include, however, the " allotments " previously made to various persons in the " two-mile bounds " al(upon which the foundations of the Village of Mamaroneck hadacres ready been begun); and there was also a small tract of thirty on wbat is now de Lancey's Neck, previously deeded by Mrs. Richbell to James Mott, which Colonel Heathcote did not acquire. With these exceptions, he became the absolute owner of all the lands in Westchester County left by John Richbell at his death. Preparaprocured Indian contory to his application for a manorial grant,thehe property thus bought; firmations ofhis title to various portions of and he also extended its limits southward to the Eastchester patent all the country between the headby purchasing from the Indians and the Bronx, a strip known as the waters of the Hutchinson River Fox Meadows. On the 21st of March. 1701. letters patent for the Manor of Scarsdale were issued to Caleb Heathcote by Lieutenant-Governor Nanfan.