The dispute appears to have remained unsettled ; for Richbell died soon after this, July 26th, 1684,^ and the greater part of his lands -- including all the northern portion -- came into the possession of the Hon. Caleb Heathcote. In 1701 Col. Heathcote obtained a comfirmation of his rights to the Richbell estate by purchasing again from the Indians the . 'rtecks' formally known as East and Great Neck, now called Orlenta

a L.iiid piipprs, Aibanv. Vol. li.. :;o. QiintPd hy Mr. JUial's li'.siiiry of Uye. b See Wcstclioster Co. Itcconis Lib. A, pa^o B4,

538 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

and Larchmont, with the lands lying north of theni along Mamaroneck river to its source and across to the Bronx.

This tract included the whole of the present town of Scarsdale, for which Col. Heathcote immediately obtained letters patent from tiie British Crown, securing him that territory and constituting the lordship or Manor of Scarsdale. But his Indian grants iucludcd, also, the whole of White Plains which the inhabitants of Rye had purchased from the Indians in 1683, and where some of them were already settled, though, no di%dsion of tlie lands had yet been made. This new encroachment on their limits occured just at the close of their unsuccessful attempt to return to the colony of Connecticut. Having failed to recover the lands appropriated by Harrison, the people of Rye probably had little hope of resisting these claims. Col. Heathcote, however, seems to have been disposed to treat them with great fairness. In the Charter which he obtained for his lands exception was made of "ye land called White Plains which is in dispute between ye said Caleb Heathcote and some of ye inhabitance of ye town of Rye,' to that land the patent gives him no further title than he already possesses.