[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] On the 6th of April, 1705, Patthunck, Sagamore, Hopescoe alias Porrige, Anne Hook, and Elias, Indian proprietors, sold to George Booth, joiner, of the city of New York, and his associates, "All that our right of land which is not yet lawfully purchased, lying and being from the land which is now in dispute betwixt Westchester and East-chester, and so running along by Hroncks's river to Hutchinson's river, and bounded on the north by Eastchester lyne, to have and to hold, &c." Upon the 22d of Sept. 170S, the following letters patent were issued under the great seal of the Province, to Colonel William Peartree and his associates.* "Anne by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c., the queen, defender of the faith, &c.; whereas, it appears, that our beloved cousin, Edward Viscount Cornbury, had granted to Col. William Peartree, Col. Jacobus van Cortlandt, Joseph van Home, Capt.