[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] south line of Massachusetts. This so-called twenty-mile line or manor line passed through Cross Pond near its centre; thence north, crossing the old Bedford I road just west of the residence of the late Joseph S. Wood; thence north between the farms of James Lawrence and Solomon Mead, crossing the road lead-ing from Salem meeting-house to Cross River in front of and west of the present residence of Solomon Mead; thence over the hill to the twenty-mile monu-ment near the south side of Long Pond. Solomon Mead's house and James Lawrence's farm were in the Ridgefield patent. Joseph Benedict's farm was in Van Cortlandt Manor. The Ridgefield patent being bounded " west by York line, or the line twenty miles from Hudson River," that patent covered the whole eastern portion of Lewisboro'. The western portion, or west of the " twenty-mile line," to Croton River, belonged to ] Cortlandt Manor, for which a royal patent or • charter was issued to Stephanus Van Cortlandt, June 17, 1697. The commissioners who surveyed the "manor" in 1734 erected a monument near the southern shore of Lake Waccabue, or Long Pond, on land now owned by Robert Hoe, which they estimated to be twenty miles from Cortlandt's Point, on the Hudson River. This monument afterward became important as a mark in defining boundaries of land.