[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] An attempt was made, reversing Webb's course, and working from the south end, to coincide with the manor line in that way, but the line so run reached the Croton River several hundred feet east of the manor line, and parallel with it for its whole length, thus establishing, first, the correctness of the work, and second, the fact that the boundary between the two towns, as it has been accepted by the residents of both, for so long a time "that the memory of man goeth not to the contrary," cannot be a straight line, as it appears on the published maps. It seems to the writer that this is accounted for as follows: It has been stated that the patent from the colony of New York was not obtained until April, 17ii4, although it was applied for in 1700, and was urged with persistence and anxiety by the people during the time intervening. But on February 14, 1701, the West Patent of North Castle (which then included the town of New Castle) was granted to Robert Walters and his nine associates. This grant, probably by error based on an imperfect understand-ing of the boundaries of the various grants, covered nearly a quarter of the territory described in ths a/i/di-cation of the Bedford people, then pending, — that is, nearly the southwestern quarter of the town. Possi-bly this was a reason for the delay which so worried the Bedford settlers.