History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 447 (part 6)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The bounds of the West Patent (so far as they effec this part of the story) are "bounded northerly by the Manor of Cortlandt, and eastwardly by Bedford line of three miles square." This expression, " Bedford three miles square." as has been said before, meant the first Bedford Purchase, or the Hop Ground. The error of Robert Walters and his associates, therefore, was in bounding the West Patent easterly by that tract, instead of by the whole town, as described in the Connecticut Patent of 1(597. Their boundary on the north, the " Manor of Cort-landt," was correct, and they, having made the error of supposing the west line of " Bedford three miles square" to be the west boundary of Bedford, natur-ally thought that the manor extended as far eastward