[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Elias Newman, then Supervisor, of the Money Raised to Settle the Quit-Rents, due from this Town, was directed to be paid to the then Poor Master, hath been paid and whereas the receipt from the said New-man was ordered to be of Record, therefore voted Unanimously, that the Payment thereof be entered of Record. Also Voted, that the final Discharge of the Auditor of this from Quit-Rents Due for the town of Bedford be Entered of Record." The boundaries of the town have re lained sub-stantially as fixed by the patent, except that a con-siderable tract lying north of the Croton River has not been included in Bedford, as it would if the patent description of "six miles square!' were fol-lowed. The reason for this is, without question, found in the fact that Katonah and the other chiefs from whom our settlers bought their lands, never claimed jurisdiction north of the Croton, but that those lands were sold to the Hon. Stephanus Van Cortlandt by the Indians of that region, a little after the time when our first settlement was made.1 No official survey of the town has been made in late years, nor is any on record, so far as the writer has as-certained. The boundaries, like those of most rural towns, are not monumented, and their existence is ■It will be remembered that in 1697 the settlers, when applying for the patent, asked to have it extend ten miles north of Stamford bounds.