The first of the purchases leading up to the three patents was made by him personally, October 10, 1696 (seven days after the procurement of his license from Governor Fletcher), from Pathunck, Wampus, Cohawney, and five other Indians. This is known as " Wampus's Land Deed," or the " North Castle Indian Deed," and was " for and in consideration of 100 pounds good and lawful money of New York." Among the names of Indian chiefs participating in the sales of the northern-central Westchester lands to Heathcote and his associates is the familiar one of Katonah. None of the three patents was ever erected into a manor or developed as any recognized separate domain or sphere of settlement. All the lands comprised in them were gradually disposed of to incoming individual aggregations of settlers wishing to enlarge their limits. As an example of this process, the tract known as the Middle Patent, or Whitefields, was in 1733 sub-divided, by agreement of the surviving patentees, into thirteen lots, having a total estimated value of £1,989, upon which, in 1739, fifteen settlers were living; and in 17(35 final settlement with the individual occupants of the lands (at that time twenty-six in number) was effected by the proprietors on the basis of nine shillings per acre.

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

All the Three Patents were granted in the same year (1701) that the Manor of Scarsdale was erected. With the purchases upon which this manor and the Three Patents were constructed, the original acquisition of great areas of land in Westchester County by individual proprietors came to an end, there being, indeed, no more " vacant and unappropriated " soil to be absorbed. It may therefore be said that with the beginning o'f the eighteenth century, but not until then, the whole of our county had come under definite tenure -- a period of some seventy-five years after the first organized settlement on Manhattan Island having been required for that eventuality.