[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 1st, 1657, William Binfield for contempt of authority, is bound over to answer at next court." On the same occasion, ".John Archer, plaintiff against Roger AViles, in an action of debt for the value of seventy-four guilders, principal." East town, the ISlh of September, 1662, at a court held be-fore Edward Walters, Robert Huestis and William Bett, by order and power of the Governor General, Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of the province of New Netherland, and the high council, (fce. Thomas Higgins, plaintiff, complains of Lawrence Turner, in « N. Y. GazeUeer. b Dr. De Witt fixes the date of its settlemeut some eight years later. " After the provisional arrangement of boundaries between New Netherland and New En gland, by Gov. Stuyvesant and the New England comiaissioners, in 1650. A number of Puritans from the east, settled a place then named Oost Dorp, (East Town) now Westchester, in Westchester county." De 'Wi.U's paper on New Neth-erland. Proceedings N. Y. Hist. Soc, 1844, 69, 180 HISTORY OF THE an action of slander done by his wife, &c., ended by arbitra-tion. When Richard NicoIIs, the Duke of Yorli's governonr, con-