History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . d inquantity. The selection of land andmeadow seems to have beenmade by each man almost im-mediately after these determi-nations, and sales and ex-changes of the land thus chosensoon followed. Several divisionsof the remaining land, in courseof time, as in 1672 and in 1682,took The official recordof these important transactions, it is evident from the town books, was not made untila much later date. In 1729 a committee of nine was appointed to findo
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . d inquantity. The selection of land andmeadow seems to have beenmade by each man almost im-mediately after these determi-nations, and sales and ex-changes of the land thus chosensoon followed. Several divisionsof the remaining land, in courseof time, as in 1672 and in 1682,took The official recordof these important transactions, it is evident from the town books, was not made untila much later date. In 1729 a committee of nine was appointed to findout the common or undivided land of this old patentof East Chester, and to lay out the same to every 1 Town Minutes, p. 75. 2 Town Minutes, pp. 5 anil 11, 1st vol. man according to privilege ; and, at the same time, itwas ordered that every lot of hind should Ik;bounded as the same was fust laid out, although itmay contain or comprehend more or less acres thanit was granted or laid out for. In 1704 John Drake, Henry Fowler, Joseph Drake,Edmund Ward ami Jeremiah Fowler are authorizedto act for the freeholders of the town, with Colonel. Peartree, Colonel Van Cortlandt and Mr. Van Home(Mr. funhorn), in procuring a patent for all thelands without the northeast line, without andwithin—that is to say, all the lands. This patent wasgranted, but not issued until 1708. In 1715 the sum offifty pounds, to pay the necessary charges, was leviedby rate upon the freeholders according to each mansprivilege or interest in it, which amount being raised, 722 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. it is determined at a town-meeting that Justis NoahBarton and Robert Sneadon, Treasurer of East Ches-ter, should go down to New York to make up ye |accu of ye town with ye Yorkers in pardnership withus, and also ye acc of ye The delivery ofthe patent to the freeholders was not made until 1729,when, in view of a dispute as to the northeast andsouthwest line between the old and new patents, thefreeholde
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