A History of the County of Westchester From Its First Settlement to the Present
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' - • '. -. V, . Richard TSicolls. In the Assize Recofds at Albany, appears the following entry. " Whereas Mr. Thonms Pell of Ann-hookes neck, (Pelhani neck. ) late deceased, upon pretence of purchase of several tracts of land of the Indian proprietors within 'the then government and jnsisdiction of the Dutch, made claiius nnto the same as namely, the lands belonging to Westchester, Eastcliester and Cromwell's neck, and that, after said land together with a larger tract formerly belonging to th...e said Dutch, were by his Majes- COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 173 ty's letters patent granted unto his Royal Highness the Duke of York, and by the said Dutch surrendered by agreement unto his Royal Highness's deputy Col. Richard Nicoils before whom said Pell did personally appear the first assizes held in New York, and then to make good his claim to the lands aforesaid, and where it being sufficiently and lawfully proved that the aforesaid lands, together with a large tract as far as Greenwich, was be- fore purchased by the late Dutch government, and whatso- ever part thereof was not by him granted out, was of right pro- perty belonging unto his Royal Highness, so:ne of which was granted to Thomas Richbell, &c.
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