[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Joseph Oakley 164 Glode Requa 296 Elnathan Taylor.. 100 Frederick van Cortlandt 105 John Dead 136 On the east side of this town, bordering the Bronx's river, is situated a tract of land called the Mile Square^ lying principally in a beautiful vale watered by the river and sheltered by pictu-resque hills. This tract was exempted out of the great manorial patent of 1693, and aj)pears originally to have formed a part of the possessions of the Doughtys of Flushing, as we find John Doughty of that place in 1685 selling sixty-four acres o( land here, in one square mile, to Francis French, Ebenezer Jones and John Wascot.a u 22d May, 1674, John Winter of Westchester sold to Joseph Jeames of Fairfield, Connecticut, a parcel of land containing 120 acres, which is one quarter part of ye tract of land Francis French and Ebenezer Jones bought of Elias Doughty. This land lay west northerly from Eastchester, on the other side of Brunckses river." — Fairfield Records. 1685, John Hiatt of Bronx's river deeds sixty acres of upland to Hopestill Betts of the Yonckers, this sale being a part of the whole tract of land called by the name of the Mile Square. Tradition says that this place was given by Frederick Philipse as,a dower portion when his daughter Annetje married Philip French. From the French and Jones f-imily it passed by sale to the Oakleys, Bertines, Curwells, Sher woods and Riches.