[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] A more appropriate name could not have been selected, as it was situated west of the New England settlements. b Spaflord's Gazetteer. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 145 this town embraced West Farms, and the manors of Morrisania and Fordham. Like the adjoining lands, Westchester was originally purchased by the Dutch West India Company, of the Mohegan sachems and other Indians, who claimed it in 1640.a-Upon the 14th of November, 1654, Thomas Pell of Fairfield, Connecticut, obtained a second grant from the aboriginal propri-etors, which also embraced the present town. Thirty years later we find the sachems Maminepoe and Wampage conveying to the inhabitants of Westchester " all that tract of land lying on the east side of Bronckses river." The principal Indian settlements in this town, were located upon Castle Hill neck and about Bear swamp.^ The former is said to have been the site of an Indian castle. On the south-east