All the newcomers for very many years were New England people. Notwithstanding the exclusion of Bedford from Connecticut by the provisions of the boundary agreement of 1083-84, Bedford continued to recognize the sole authority of Connecticut. Her people, like those of live, disregarded the summons of Governor Dongan of Now York in 1085, to take out patents for their lands, although this omission did not, as in the case of Bye, cause them any ultimate loss of territory. Frequent applications were, however, made to the Connecticut authorities for a town patent; and on May 21, 1607, after Bedford and Bye had been taken under the protection of that colony, these efforts were finally rewarded. The Connecticut patent for Bedford issued on that date was to " John Miller, Senr., Daniel Simkins, Zachariah Roberts, Cornelius Seely, Jeremiah Andrews, John Westcoate, John Miller, Junr., John Holmes, Junr., and the rest of the present proprietors of Bedford," and in it the tract was described as follows: "All those lands, boath meadows, swamps and uplands, within these abuttments, viz.: Southerly on the bounds of the township of Stamford; Westerly on the wilderness; Northerly on the wilderness; and easterly on the wilderness, or land not yet laid out. Every of which sides is six miles in length, to witt : from the east side westerly, and from the south side northerly, and is a township of six miles square, or six miles on every side, which said lands have been by purchase or otherwise, lawfully obtained of the Indian native proprietors." April 8, 1704, this Connecticut patent was confirmed by New York, an annual quit-rent of £5 being provided for. to a map of the manors of Westchester County it will reference By be observed that the northern section of Bedford Patent overlaps Cortlandt Manor, taking a quite considerable area from that manor.