A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 7
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] -'_ * -Peter Disbrow. This settlement was confirmed June, 2lst, 1696, by the gene-ral court sitting in Hartford, May 8ih, 1693. " Upon the 28th November, 16S0, the town made choice of Peter Disbrow, Hachaliah Brown, Robert Blomer, and Thomas Merritt, for to go with the Indians to view some land lying be-tween the Blind brook and Biram river, and to make a thorow bargain with them if they shall see it best." The result of this interview was a sale of land under the In-dian sachem Marunaking, "of all that certain tract of land lying by a brook, commonly called Blind brook, which tract of land is called by the Indians Eauketaicperciisoii/' bounded as fol-loweth : " Beginning at the southermost end, which is between the above said brook and a branch thereof, and from thence to the great swamp at the ould marked tree, which is now marked with these letters, R. B. H. T. M., and from thence by marked trees to a small run which runs into the above said brook, and there is marked with a mark, the which tract of land is called by the English name of Hogg Pond ridge, to have and to hold, &c., &c. In witness hereof I have set to my hand this 4th day of September, in the