[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] -b Testimony of Mr. Sands., ^ t Testimony of Mr. Merrill in 1826. 448 HISTORY OF THE rigines, for in 1660 we find the Indians again releasing them to John Richbell, of Mamaroneck. Upon the 19th of October, 1696, Caleb Heathcote obtained a further release from ihe Indian sa-chems Wampus, Patlhunck, and others, " of all that tract of land situate, lyino^ and being in the county of Westchester, &c. : bounded north by Croton River, easterly with Byram River and Bedford line, northerly by the land of John Harrison and his as-sociates, and the line stretching to Byram River aforesaid, and westerly by the land of Frederick Phihpse."a The above sale included the west patent of North Castle. Caleb Heathcote had previously obtained a patent right from Mrs. Anne Richbell to purchase lands " which were already included in her husband's deed of 1660." Upon the 21st of May, 1696, John Brundage "made applica-tion for himself and Richard Griffen, to purchase 100 acres of va-cant land in the county of Westchester, on Byram river, near fourteen miles from the Sound, for which they desire a patent.''^