[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It was in June, 1697, that he ob-tained his manor grant, bounded southerly by a line beginning near the mouth of the Croton and running " due east twenty English miles." But a month previously Bedford had obtained her patent from Con-necticut; and so, when Van Cortlandt's surveyor, working on his "due east " line,1 was advancing through Bedford, he was doubtless apprised by our settlers that he was on Connecticut soil. No use to go farther; so he ran his line around the north side of Bedford, leaving her out of the Van Cortlandt Manor, as this ancient wall has for nearly two centu-ries silently testified. The wall does not extend quite so far south as where the ancient manor line intersects the town boundary; but the west line of the town is traced I Now the boundary line between New Castle and Yorktown. I'ntil IMG Si.mers extended s jthward to this line. with sufficient clearness as far as the village of Mount Kisco. The heap of stones mentioned by Webb as the " S. W. Corner " remained and was well known by those residing near, until a few years ago, when the stones were removed by a farmer. The spot was identified, for the purpose of the survey of 1879, but all attempts to make the manor line, duly extended, strike that spot, were failures. Such a line falls west of the accepted boundary along that part of the town.