544 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY d!" V/ESTCHESTm.

ing of the premisses or any part tU'.TCof In Tcsthnony whereof \Vec L-iv • Caused these our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of our paid i'r •• vince to he hereunto affixed and the same to be Entrcd of Record in our J^c r. . tarys OfBce in one of the Books of Pntents there Remaining Witness our Tn;->'v and well beloved William Burnet Esq Captain General aud Governour in Chief (,f our Province of New Jersey and of all the Territories and Tracts of I/.i;:.! thereon Depending in America and Vice Adniirall of the same &c at Fort George in New York the Thirteenth day of ^Marcli in the Eight year of ov.r Reign Armo Domini 1721'^ W. ROBIN, D. Sccr'^-.

At this date, 172 1, the occupants of the land on what is now calle'l Broadway, were George Lane, Hving on the Squires place, and include. i Mr. Brown's ; Daniel Erundage in the old liouse next to Mr. Brown's, tr.c only house of that date now standing. The next noith of Brundage, was James Tra\'is. On the west side of Broadway was Moses KnappV house, about where Mr. Fiero now resides. John Hyatt Hved a litiic north of Knai)p, and Daniel Lane's house stood near the present residence of Elisha Horton. Anthony Miller ov.-ned the farm where the Miss Tompkins reside above the old Methodist church ; he had a fulling mill on the brook, near the Bronx river. The north west corner of the patent was seventeen chains north of this fulling mill. Christopher Tromain's house was near the Bronx not far from where Mr. Champa."ics lives on the road leading west from the old Methodist meeting-house. Samuel Horton built and lived in the house now standing known as the Jacob Purdy place at the foot of Frank Carpenter's hill.