History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 442
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] lot shall be less than three acres." On March 17th the committee made the division by drawing lots, and on the 23d of March the "propria-tors agree that what the committee have done shall stand; " " and the meeting house shall be set upon the comman so layd out, namly,the rock called Bates, his hill." At this meeting John Bates and Nathaniel Cross were received as " propriators," they paying 5 Mrs. William Benedict, of Pleasantville, remembers that her grand-DD ither used to relate that, when a little girl, sho visited Indians in their wigwam, a short distance southeast of Bedford, and was invited to stay to dinner, which consisted of a woodchuck, baked in the ashes. She was a daughter of John Ferris and was born in 1752. 582 HISTORY OK WESTCHESTEK COUNTY. their share of the charges and being equal in all re-spects with the others.