In this endeavor they were put to considerable vexation " Three times were they compelled and expense by the authorities. to make surveys of their goodly land, three times required to notify the owners of adjoining lands that such surveys were about to be made, and all to furnish pretexts lor oppressive charges by the The royal patent was finally officers of the governor's council."1 It granted on the 13th of March, 1722, to Joseph Bucld and others. was for "All that said- tract or parcel of land, situate, lying, and being in the County of Westchester, commonly known by the name of the White Plains. " Among the names of the settlers at that period mentioned in the official documents we find the following: Daniel Brundage, Joseph Hunt. Joseph Budd, John lloit, Caleb Hyatt, Humphrey Underbill, Joseph Purdy, George Lane, Daniel Lane, Peter Moses Knap]*', John Horton, David Horton, Jonathan Lynch, Hatfield, James Travis, Isaac ('overt, Benjamin Brown, John Turner, This list is but a partial one, David Ogden, and William Yeomans. "At the time ibis patent was isbeing confined to the patentees. sued," says the author of the chapter on White Plains in Scharfs History, " Broadway, with its home-lots, had long been established." After the procurement of the patent the population increased so rapidly that "in 172.% the inhabitants assumed an independent organization, elected officers, and proceeded to manage their own affairs.'' In the progress of this History, we have so far followed the movements of settlement and development along closely connecting lines. It has thus happened that the settlement of the Town of Bedford, rewhich, under a strictly chronological arrangement, should have yet ceived notice among the comparatively early events, has not as been traced, or even referred to, except in the merest incidental manner. i " History~of