A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 66
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] the 30ili of October, 1677, " to go to our governor to meet Mr. Justice Pell, Esq., where it is intended that our governor is to decide any ditferefice that may arise betwixt us concerning the bounds of our Patent.''^ In the year 1681 Capt. Phillip Pinckney, Samuel Drake, senior, and Moses Hoit, were chosen to treat with the Indians about their lands. " And so if they can agree, in behalf of the rest of the inhabitants, with the said Indians, concerning the purchase and pay of the said land, &c., these tiiree men above mentioned to be together in the design.'' "Also it is further agreed that the said Indian purchase shall be paid, answerable unto every man's proportion of land in the east division already laid out, &c."c The following land list occurs in 1682, containing the names and rates of the resident freeholders : — Samuel Drake, 301 Walter Lancaster,