History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . lately run forthe south bounds ofthe manor of Cort-landt; thence alongsaid line south 87°north 144 chains to astone fence on the eastside of the Widow Sut-tons land;1 thencesouth 12° 30 east 107chains; thence south33° 20 east 34 chains20 links; thence south20° 30 east 65 chains 20 links; thence south 13° E. 35 chains 40 links;thence south 16° east 43 chains to the place ofbeginning, containing 4151 acres. The tract wasdivided into sixteen lots, advertised a
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . lately run forthe south bounds ofthe manor of Cort-landt; thence alongsaid line south 87°north 144 chains to astone fence on the eastside of the Widow Sut-tons land;1 thencesouth 12° 30 east 107chains; thence south33° 20 east 34 chains20 links; thence south20° 30 east 65 chains 20 links; thence south 13° E. 35 chains 40 links;thence south 16° east 43 chains to the place ofbeginning, containing 4151 acres. The tract wasdivided into sixteen lots, advertised and sold. This description and map are copied from those onfile in the office of the Secretary of State, survey, on both the south and west town boun-daries, between Bedford and North Castle,3 evidentlyfollowed the town lines as then understood, and asusage and ownership had established them during theseventy or eighty years preceding. No official sur-vey has been made since, and this is probably themost correct map of that part of the town boundarynow in existence. Military History and Incidents.—The fii>t re-. MAP OF BEDFORD. i Obviously ttie proprietors had not solil it because they never hada good title to The stone wall before mentioned. » New Castle w as not taken from North Castle uutil 1798. corded military achievement of which this wasthe scene occurred in February, 1684, during theDutch and Indian War, when the Indian village south-east of the present village of Bedford was burned byCaptain John Underbill, and several hundred of theIndians butchered, the pious historian of the time ob-serving, the Lord having collected the most of ourenemies there to celebrate some peculiar place was the plain below the cliff, near the oldschool-house. As the causes which led to this unfor-tunate event are fully discussed in another chapter itis not necessary further to refer to them here. Its re-sult was to weaken and intimidate the survi
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