Scarsdale Manor, as it existed before the partition, comprehended the presof Mamaroneck and Scarsdale, with a small part of Harrison.ent Towns The reader will remember that Heathcote, in addition to buying the Kichbell estate and some adjacent Indian lands, called the Pox Meadows (the latter being secured in order to extend the limits of his proposed manor southward to the Eastchester boundary), procured from Governor Fletcher a license to purchase vacant and unappropriated land in Westchester County, and extinguish the title of the natives. Under this license, dated October 12, 169G, he, with a number of associates, bought up practically all of the county that still remained in the possession of its aboriginal owners -- that is, all of the previously unpurchased portions bounded on the south by Harrison's Purchase and Scarsdale Manor (or, rather, Harrison's Purchase and the disputed White Plains tract), on the east by Connecticut, on the north by Cortlandt Manor, and on the west by Philipseburgh Manor. In the aggregate, the purchases thus made embraced "about seventy thousand acres, or some twelve thousand seven hundred acres of so-called " improvable land," and they were

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largely confirmed to Heathcote and his associates in three patents issued by Lieutenant-Governor Nanfan, known as the West, Middle, and East Patents. The West Patent, dated February 14, 1701, to Robert Walter and nine other patentees, included all of the large angle between Philipseburgh and Cortlandt Manors, and stretched eastwardly to the Bryam River and the Town of Bedford. It contained five thousand acres of improvable land. The Middle Patent, dated February 17, 1701, to Caleb Heathcote and twelve others, extended from the West Patent to the Mianus River, and had fifteen hundred acres of improvable land. The East Patent, the largest of the three, embracing sixty-two hundred acres of improvable land, was granted on the 20th of March, 1701, to R.