government" were beprivileges belonging to a town within this In 1686 it was deemed advisable by stowed upon the patentees. the inhabitants to procure a second patent, which was accordingly Under this second patent issued (January 6) by Governor Dongan. twelve men1 were designated as the "Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of Westchester," these trustees beingIn order to disconstituted as "one body corporate and politick." pose forever of any possible hostile claims to lands within their town limits on the ground of irregularities or defects in the original purchases from the Indians, the trustees, on the 27th of May, 1692, obtained a final deed of sale from four Indians-- Maminepoe, Warnand Mamertekoh-- by page (alias Ann Hook), Chrohamanthense, goods valued at £8 Is 6d, which the latter, for the consideration of ter " whatWestches of town county tk the to released unconditionally Also steps ever proprietary pretensions they had to its territory. were taken by the trustees to mark off the northern bounds of the The records of the town, where it adjoined " Mr. Pell's purchase." As early as 1678 a bridge town were kept with regularity from 1G5T. The polit2 had been built joining Throgg's Neck to the mainland. ical limits of the town were always understood and expressed as extending from the westernmost part of Bronxland to " Mr. Pell's Morrisania purchase," and thus Cornell's Neck, West Farms, and Indeed, the Manor belonged to the political territory of the town. Willetts), as also the various famproprietors of Cornell's Neck (the ilies constituting the settlement of West Farms, were at all times thoroughly identified with the local concerns of Westchester town. In 1670 the good people of Westchester were somewhat exercised An order apby the appearance of a supposed witch amongst them. pears in the Assize Book, dated July 7, 1670, for the removal of one " Katherine Harrison late of Wethersfield in his Maties Colony of Connecticott widdow." In this order it is related that " contrary to ye consent & good liking of ye Towne she would settle amongst them & she being reputed to be a person lyeing undr ye supposicion of Witchcraft hath given some cause of apprehension to ye Inhabitants there." Accordingly, the constable and overseers are directed to notify her to remove out of the precincts " in some short tyme," and also to admonish her to "returne to ye place of her former abode/' Subsequently, however, Katherine Harrison was fully exonerated.