Chester, which we have already described, secured by Caleb Heathcote and others from Lieutenant-Governor Nanfan in 1701, were among the foundations upon which such portions of the county north of the White Plains and Harrison tracts as were not included in the Eye and Bedford Patents and the Philipseburgh and Cortlandt Manor The West Patent, known as " Wampus's Land grants were settled. Deed," or the "North Castle Indian Deed," based upon a purchase from the Indians made by Heathcote in 1G9C>. but not patented until February 14, 1702, was bounded on the east by the Byram River and the Bedford line, on the north by the Croton River, and at the west took in all the wedge-shaped land between Philipseburgh and Cortlandt Manors, forming an acute angle on the Hudson at the Croton's mouth. Its northern boundary, however, was subsequently removed from the Croton to the southern line of Cortlandt Manor, in order to conform Out of the West Patent was erected to the Cortlandt Manor grant. The patentees, ten in number, much of the Town of North Castle. in the province, whose influence and included men of prominence "interest was not that of settlers seeking a home, but merely that The lands began to be settled about 1718-20 by of speculators." Harrison's Quaker farmers from Long Island, who came by way of purchase, and whose descendants to this day belong to the principal families of that section of our county, among them the Haights, Weekses, Carpenters, Buttons, Quimbys, Hunts, Birdsalls, Barneses, In August, 1712, the settlers petitioned Governor and Havilands. their lands into a township, mentioning in incorporate to Burnett that document that their number comprised thirty men able to bear Letters patent were soon afterward issued for the Town of arms. In addition to the lands represented by the West North Castle.