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. Its bounds are not very clearly described in that document. Accord-a ing to the spirit of the grant, its northward projection was to be distance of twenty miles, as in the original Richbell patent; but an express proviso was made that no further title should be given to Heathcote than that which he " already hath to ye lands called ye White Plains, which is in dispute between ye said Caleb Heathcote and some of the inhabitants of the Town of Rye." In point of fact, Searsdale Manor was always limited at the north by the White Plains tract, Heathcote never having been able to legally establish

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his ownership of the disputed lands. The northern line of the manor followed the Mamaroneck River from its mouth for about two miles, and thence proceeded to the Bronx. At the west and east it was bordered, respectively, by the Bronx and the Sound. On the south it was bounded by the wedge-shaped private lands already mentioned, by the extreme northern corner of the old Pelham Manor (included in the New Bochelle purchase of the Huguenots), and by the Eastchester patent. The annual quit-rent fixed in the grant was " five pounds current money of New Yorke, upon the Nativity of our Lord." The manor was called Scarsdale by its proprietor after that portion of Derbyshire in England where he was born -- a locality known as " the Hundred of Scarsdale." Although his proprietary interest in the town lots of Mamaroneck was confined to his personal ownership of two of them, he was always regarded by the settlers there as the controlling spirit of the place, and he gave much attention to the promotion of its development and welfare.